پیار
Urdu edit
Etymology edit
First attested in c. 1611 as Middle Hindi پیار (piyār /pyār/), inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀧𑀺𑀆𑀭 (piāra), from Sanskrit प्रियकार (priyakāra), compound of प्रिय (priyá) + कार (kāra).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /pɪ.jɑːɾ/, /pjɑːɾ/
- Rhymes: -ɑːɾ
Noun edit
پیار • (piyār or pyār) m (Hindi spelling प्यार)
- love, romance
- love, friendship
- Synonym: مُحَبَّت (muhabbat)
- affection; attachment (commonly with inanimate objects, or connoted with feelings)
- (euphemistic) a kiss (usually for a child)
- caress (ie. act of endearment)
- grace, respect (from an elder)
- grace, compassion, benevolence
- (rare) beloved, dear (often vocative)
Declension edit
| Declension of پیار | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| direct | پِیار (piyār) | پِیار (piyār) |
| oblique | پِیار (piyār) | پِیاروں (piyārō̃) |
| vocative | پِیار (piyār) | پِیارو (piyārō) |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “پیار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “پیار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پيار”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John Thompson (1884) “پيار”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “پيار”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 389
- John Shakespear (1834) “پیار”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “priyakāra”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 503