बर्फ़

See also: बरफ़, बरफ, बर्फ, and बर्फ़ी

Hindi

Alternative forms

• बरफ़ (baraf)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian برف (barf). Compare Assamese বৰফ (boroph), Bengali বরফ (boroph), Gujarati બરફ (baraph), Marathi बर्फ (barpha), Nepali बरफ (baraph), Punjabi ਬਰਫ਼ (baraf), all Persian borrowings.

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /bə.ɾəf/, [bɐ.ɾɐf], /bə.ɾəpʰ/, [bɐ.ɾɐpʰ], /bəɾf/, [bɐɾf], /bəɾpʰ/, [bɐɾpʰ]

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Noun

बर्फ़ • (barf) f (Urdu spelling برف)

1. snow

   कल यहाँ दो इंच बर्फ़ पेड़ेगी।

   kal yahā̃ do iñc barf peṛegī.

   Two inches of snow will fall here tomorrow.

2. ice

   Synonym: हिम (him)

3. ice cubes

Declension

Declension of बर्फ़ (fem cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	बर्फ़ barf	बर्फ़ें barfẽ
oblique	बर्फ़ barf	बर्फ़ों barfõ
vocative	बर्फ़ barf	बर्फ़ो barfo

Derived terms

• बर्फ़ी (barfī)

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “barf”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press