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تہوار

Urdu

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Apabhramsa तिहिवार (tihivāra), from Sanskrit *तिथिवार (tithivāra).[1] First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi تیوہار (tyvhar /⁠tiyohār⁠/).[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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تِہْوَار • (tihvār) m (Hindi spelling तिहवार or तेहवार)

  1. day of festival, celebration, holiday

Declension

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Declension of تہوار
singular plural
direct تِہْوَار (tihvār) تِہْوَار (tihvār)
oblique تِہْوَار (tihvār) تِہْوَاروں (tihvārō̃)
vocative تِہْوَار (tihvār) تِہْوَارو (tihvārō)

References

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  1. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*tithivāra”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 331
  2. ^ “تہوار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

Further reading

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