خوار

Arabic

Root
خ و ر (ḵ-w-r)

Adjective

خَوَّار • (ḵawwār) (feminine خَوَّارَة (ḵawwāra), common plural خُور (ḵūr))

  1. flaccid, floppy, flabby, feeble

Declension

Noun

خُوَار • (ḵuwār) m

  1. verbal noun of خَارَ (ḵāra, to bellow, to low)

Declension

Ottoman Turkish

Adjective

خوار • (har, hor)

  1. alternative form of خور (hor)

References

  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “خوار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1958

Persian

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? xwār
Dari reading? xār
Iranian reading? xâr
Tajik reading? xor

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [script needed] (hw'l /⁠xᵛār⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *ātra- / *āθra- (spirit, breath), of unknown further origin.[1]

Adjective

خوار • (xvâr)

  1. (archaic) easy
  2. mean, abject

Etymology 2

See below.

Verb

خوار • (xvâr)

  1. present stem form of خواردن (to eat, to consume)

References

  1. Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2000) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 324

Ushojo

Etymology

From Persian خوار (xvâr).

Adjective

خوار (xvār)

  1. weak
  2. vulnerable
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