بھور

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit *भोर (bhora), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *bʰawras (“dawn”). Cognate with Bengali ভোর (bhōr), Gujarati ભોર (bhor), Nepali भोर (bhor), Punjabi ਭੋਰ (bhor) / بھور (bhor), and Odia ଭୋର (bhora).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bʱoːɾ/
• Rhymes: -oːɾ
• Hyphenation: بھور

Noun

بھور • (bhor) m (Hindi spelling भोर)

1. dawn, sunrise, daybreak

   Synonyms: صُبْح (subh), سَویرا (saverā), تَڑکا

   • 1981, پروین شاکر [Parvīn Śākir], صد برگ [Sad Barg], Asadullah Ghalib, page 35:

     بھور سمے تک جس نے ہمیں باہم الجھائے رکھا / وہ البیلی ریشم ایسی بات گزر گئی جاناں

     bhor same tak jis ne hamẽ bāham uljhā'e rakhā / vo albelī reśam aisī bāt guzar gaī jānā̃

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Declension of بھور
	singular	plural
direct	بھور (bhor)	بھور (bhor)
oblique	بھور (bhor)	بھوروں (bhorō̃)
vocative	بھور (bhor)	بھورو (bhorō)

Further reading

• “بھور”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “بھور”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بهور”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “بهور”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “بھور”, 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
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “بھور”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.