موسیقار

Persian

FWOTD – 20 January 2024

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مُوسِيقَار (mūsīqār, “musician”), from Classical Syriac ܡܘܣܝܩܪܐ (mūsīqārā, “musician”), from Ancient Greek μουσικός (mousikós, “musician”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [muː.siː.ˈqɑːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [muː.siː.qɑ́ːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [muː.siː.qɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [muː.siː.qɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mu.si.qɔ́ːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [muː.siː.ʁɒ́ːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mu.si.qɔ́ɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	mūsīqār
Dari reading?	mūsīqār
Iranian reading?	musiğâr
Tajik reading?	musiqor

Noun

موسیقار • (musiqâr)

1. panpipes
2. a fictitious bird that is said to sing beautifully
   • c. 1911, Mohammad Hossein Âğuli Torki-ye Shirâzi, دیوان ترکی شیرازی‎^[1]:

     من بیچاره از غمش شب و روز
     در فغانم چو مرغ موسیقار

     man bičâre az ğam-aš šab o ruz
     dar fağân-am ču morğ-e musiqâr

     Day and night, I am helpless out of love-grief for him/her;
     In my crying, I am like the musiqâr bird.

3. (obsolete) musician

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian موسیقار (mūsīqār), from Arabic مُوسِيقَار (mūsīqār, “musician”), from Classical Syriac ܡܘܣܝܩܪܐ (mūsīqārā, “musician”), from Ancient Greek μουσικός (mousikós, “musician”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /muː.siː.qɑːɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɾ
• Hyphenation: مُو‧سی‧قار

Noun

مُوسِیقار • (mūsīqār) m (Hindi spelling मूसीक़ार)

1. musician (by extension, a singer)
2. phoenix bird
3. panpipes an instrument/pipe used by shepherd's or devises
4. (figurative) an instrument (ie. to describe a human as an instrument – not necessarily dehumanizing)

Declension

Declension of موسیقار
	singular	plural
direct	مُوسِیقار (mūsīqār)	مُوسِیقار (mūsīqār)
oblique	مُوسِیقار (mūsīqār)	مُوسِیقاروں (mūsīqārō̃)
vocative	مُوسِیقار (mūsīqār)	مُوسِیقارو (mūsīqārō)

Further reading

• “موسیقار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “موسیقار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “موسيقار”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John Thompson (1884) “موسيقار”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “موسيقار”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1134
• John Shakespear (1834) “موسیقار”, 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