آلوی بخارا

Persian

Alternative forms

• آلو بخارا (âlu boxârâ)

Etymology

Literally, "plum of Bukhara", from آلو (âlu, “plum”) and بخارا (boxârâ, “Bukhara”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.luː.ji bu.xɑː.ˈɾɑː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.luː.jɪ bʊ.xɑː.ɾɑ́ː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.luː.jɪ bʊ.xɑː.ɾɑ́ː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.luː.jɪ bʊ.xɑː.ɾɑ́ː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔː.lu.ji bu.xɔː.ɾɔ́ː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɒː.luː.je bo.xɒː.ɹɒ́ː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɔ.lu.ji bu.χɔ.ɾɔ́]

Readings
Classical reading?	ālū-yi buxārā
Dari reading?	ālū-yi buxārā
Iranian reading?	âlu-ye boxârâ
Tajik reading?	olu-yi buxoro

Noun

Dari	آلوی بخارا
Iranian Persian
Tajik	олуи бухоро

آلوی بخارا • (âlu-ye boxârâ)

1. alubukhara

Descendants

• → Armenian: ալբուխարա (albuxara), ալբուխարի (albuxari), ալբուխար (albuxar), ալիբուխարա (alibuxara), ալի պոխորա (ali poxora)
• → Azerbaijani: albuxara
• → English: alubukhara, alu-bukhara, alu bukhara, albukhara, aloo bukhara, aloobukhara
• → Hindi: आलूबुखारा (ālūbukhārā)
• → Nepali: आरु बुखारा (āru bukhārā)
• → Ottoman Turkish: آلوی بخارا (alu buhara)
• → Pashto: آلوبخارا (ālubuxārā́)
• → Russian: алибухара (alibuxara), али-бухара (ali-buxara), алибухар (alibuxar), альбухара (alʹbuxara)

Further reading

• Anikin, A. E. (2007) “алибухара”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), numbers 1 (A – аяюшка), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 160
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آلو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 190a
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “آلو”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 49a
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1931) “आरु”, in A comparative and etymological dictionary of the Nepali language, London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, page 37b
• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “آلو”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume I, Bonn: Adolf Marcus, page 49a