وقار

Arabic

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *waqar- (“to be heavy or weighty; a tree laden with fruits; to be honorable or to hold weight in value”), from Proto-Afroasiatic *waqar-; compare Egyptian jqr (“excellent, worthy”) and Hebrew יָקָר (“expensive, dear, precious”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /wa.qaːr/

Noun

وَقَار • (waqār) m (plural وُقُور (wuqūr))

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَقَار (waqār).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [wa.ˈqɑːɾ]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [wä.qɑ́ːɾ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [wä.qɑ́ːɾ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [wä.qɔ́ːɾ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [væ.ʁɒ́ːɹ]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [vä.qɔ́ɾ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	waqār
Dari reading^?	waqār
Iranian reading^?	vağâr
Tajik reading^?	vaqor

Noun

وقار • (vaqâr)

dignity, grandeur, majesty
- c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 80:
  ناگفته یک سخن دل و جان صید میکنی
  ای ناز و دلبری بتو لایق وقار هم
  nāgufta yak suxan dil u jān sayd mēkunī
  ay nāz u dilbarē ba-tō lāyiq-i waqār ham
  The heart has not uttered a word and you are hunting the soul,
  O you by whom even flirting and heart-capturing become worthy of dignity!
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “وقار”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Urdu

Etymology

From Arabic وَقَار (waqār).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʋə.qɑːɾ/

Noun

وَقار • (vaqār) m (Hindi spelling वक़ार)

References

“وقار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
“وقار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.

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