اتوار

Pahari-Potwari

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit आदित्यवार (ādityavāra), from Prakrit 𑀆𑀇𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀯𑀸𑀭 (āittavāra).

Noun

اتوار (itvār)

1. sunday

Urdu

Alternative forms

• ایتوار (etvār)

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit आदित्यवार (ādityavāra).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɪt̪.ʋɑːɾ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːɾ
• Hyphenation: اِت‧وار

Noun

اِتْوَار • (itvār) m (Hindi spelling इतवार)

1. Sunday

   Synonyms: یک شنبہ (yak-śanba), یوم الاحد (yom-ul-ahad)

2. the Sabbath day

Declension

Declension of اتوار

	singular	plural
direct	اِتْوَار (itvār)	اِتْوَار (itvār)
oblique	اِتْوَار (itvār)	اِتْوَاروں (itvārõ)
vocative	اِتْوَار (itvār)	اِتْوَارو (itvāro)

See also

Days of the week in Urdu · ہَفْتے کے دِن (hafte ke din) (layout · text)
پِیر (pīr), سومْوَار (somvār)	مَن٘گَل (maṅgal)	بُدھ (budh)	جُمِعْرات (jumi'rāt)	جُمْعَہ (jum'a)	سَنِیچَر (sanīcar), ہَفْتَہ (hafta), شَنْبَہ (śanba)	اِتْوَار (itvār)

Further reading

• “اتوار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “اتوار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “اتوار”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “اتوار”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “اِتوار”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.

• John Shakespear (1834) “اتوار”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “ādityavāra”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 52

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu اتوار (itvār), from Sanskrit आदित्यवार (ādityavāra).

Noun

اتوار (itwār) ?

1. Sunday