کنار

See also: كنار‎

Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [script needed] (knʾl /kanār/, “side, edge”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /kanɑːɾ ~ kinɑːɾ/

• (Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /kanɑːɾ ~ kɪnɑːɾ/

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /kænɒːɾ ~ kenɒːɾ/

• (Tajik) IPA^(key): /kanɔɾ ~ kinɔɾ/

Noun

کِنار • (kenâr)

1. side
2. edge, limit, boundary
3. shore, coast
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, Reynold A. Nicholson, transl., مثنوی معنوی‎ [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume VI, verse 3881:

     ‏علم دریاییست بی‌حد و کنار / طالب علمست غواص بحار‎

     'elm daryâ-yi-st bi-hadd o kanâr / tâleb-e 'elm ast ğowvâs-e behâr

     Knowledge is an ocean without bound or shore: the seeker of knowledge is the diver in [those] seas.

Related terms

• کناره‎ (kenâre)

Descendants

• → Bengali: কিনার (kinār)
• → Gujarati: કિનાર (kinār)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: किनार (kinār)

  Urdu: كنار‎ (kinār)

• → Kazakh: қанар (qanar)
  • → Russian: кана́р (kanár)
• → Old Anatolian Turkish: كنار‎ (känar)
  • Azerbaijani: kənar
  • Ottoman Turkish: كنار‎ (kenar)
    • Turkish: kenar
    • → Arabic: كَنَار‎ (kanār, “a border in architecture”)
    • → Bulgarian: кена́р (kenár, “a kind of lace; border, end”)
    • → Macedonian: ќенар (ḱenar, “a kind of lace”)
    • → Romanian: chenar
    • → Serbo-Croatian: (“a kind of lace; border, end”)

      Cyrillic script: ћѐна̄р

      Latin script: ćènār

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਕਿਨਾਰ (kinār)

  Shahmukhi: كنار‎ (kinār)

• → Uzbek: qanor
  • → Russian: кана́р (kanár)

Preposition

کِنارِ • (kenâr-e)

1. next to, besides

   ‏آیا می‌توانیم کنار پنجره بنشینیم؟‎‎ (literary)

   âyâ mi-tavânim kenâr-e panjere be-nešinim?

   Can we sit next to the window?

   ‏می‌شه کنار پنجره بشینیم؟‎‎ (colloquial)

   mi-še kenâr-e panjere be-šinim?

   Can we sit next to the window?

Adverb

کِنار • (kenâr)

1. aside

Etymology 2

From Middle Persian. Compare Classical Syriac ܟܢܪܐ‎ (kənārā), Old Armenian քնարուկ (kʿnaruk), Iranian borrowings. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

کنار • (konâr)

1. Ziziphus, especially of species Ziziphus spina-christi