دور

دَوَّرَ • (dawwara) II, non-past يُدَوِّرُ‎ (yudawwiru)

1. (transitive) to turn in a circle, to spin, to whirl, to revolve, to rotate
2. (transitive) to turn into a circle, to make round

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “دور”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 344

دَوْر • (dawr) m (plural أَدْوَار (ʔadwār))

1. verbal noun of دَارَ (dāra) (form I)
2. role

   تَلْعَبُ التِّكْنُولُوجْيَا دَوْرًا كَبِيرًا فِي تَسْهِيلِ حَيَاتِنَا ٱلْيَوْمِيَّةِ.

   talʕabu t-tiknūlūjyā dawran kabīran fī tashīli ḥayātinā l-yawmiyyati.

   Technology plays a great role in facilitating our daily lives.

3. turn

   جَاءَ دَوْرِي لِلتَّصْوِيتِ. ― jāʔa dawriy li-t-taṣwīti. ― It is my turn to vote.

   جَاءَ دَوْرِي فِي ٱلْكَلَامِ. ― jāʔa dawriy fī l-kalāmi. ― It is my turn to talk.

4. rotation
5. circle, cycle
6. vicissitude
7. age, period, epoch
8. roundabout way
9. fit of fever
10. floor, story
11. the world

• → Azerbaijani: dövr
• → Bashkir: дәүер (dəwer)
• → Chagatai: دور
  • Uyghur: دەۋر (dewr)
  • Uzbek: davr
• → Crimean Tatar: devir
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: दौर (daur)
  • Urdu: دور (daur)
• → Kazakh: дәуір (däuır)
• → Khalaj: dovr
• → Kyrgyz: доор (door)
• → Ottoman Turkish: دور (devr)
  • Turkish: devir
  • → Romanian: dever
• → Persian: دور (dowr)
• → Spanish: ador
• → Turkmen: döwür

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “دور”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

• Rhymes: -uːr

دُور • (dūr) f pl

1. plural of دَار (dār)

دور

1. Arabic spelling of dur

دور • (dawr) m, pl أدوار (ʔadwār)

1. floor (“storey”)

دُور (dovr)

1. Arabic spelling of dovr (“all around”)

دُور (dovr) (definite accusative دُوروُ, plural دُورلار)

1. Arabic spelling of dovr (“edge, border, surroundings”)

Borrowed from Arabic دَوْر (dawr).

دور • (devr)

1. a revolution, circuit, rotation
2. a circumference or periphery
3. a turn, twist, whorl
4. a mode of turning or revolving
5. a turn or circuit of duty or of action, a period of revolution of a heavenly body
6. a vicious circle of reasoning
7. a cycle, a period of time

• Turkish: devir
• → Romanian: dever

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 919

Contraction of دورور (durur, “it stands”).

دور • (dur)

1. (old or provincial by the 19th century) Alternative spelling of در (dur, “it is”)

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 892
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 919

Borrowed from Persian دور (dur).

دور • (dur)

1. far, far off, distant

   Synonym: اوزاق (uzak)

2. absent
3. improbable, incredible

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 919

Borrowed from Arabic دُور (dūr), plural of دَار (dār).

دور • (dur)

1. houses
2. countries, regions

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 919

From Proto-Iranian *duHráh (“far”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *duHrás (“far”).[1] Cognate with Central Kurdish دوور (dûr, “far, distant”), Pashto لرې (lëre, “distant”), Sanskrit दूर (dūra, “distant, remote”), Avestan 𐬛𐬏𐬭𐬁𐬝 (dūrāt̰, “from afar”), Ancient Greek δηρός (dērós, “long”), Latin dūrus, Old Armenian երկար (erkar, “long, extended”).

دور • (dur)

1. far
2. distant

دور • (dur)

1. away

• دوراندیش (dur-andiš)
• دوربین (dur-bin)
• دورگو (dur-gu)
• دورنما (dur-nomâ)
• دورنویس (dur-nevis)
• دوری (duri)

• → Azerbaijani: dur
• → Ottoman Turkish: دور (dur)

From Arabic دَوْر (dawr).

دور • (dowr) (plural ادوار (advâr))

1. turn
2. cycle
3. circumference
4. period, era, time, age
5. revolution

• دوره (dowre)
• دوری (dowri)

From Arabic دَوَّرَ (dawwara).

• IPA^(key): /daw.war/, [ˈdaw.war]

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دوّر • (dawwar) II (present بدوّر (bidawwer))

1. (transitive) to turn

   بدوّر العجل

   bidawwer il ʕajal

   He turns the wheel.

2. to search, to look for

   دوّرت عليه بس ما لقيتوش

   dawwart alē bass mā laʔētoš

   I looked for him but I didn't find him.

From Arabic دَوْر (dawr).

• IPA^(key): /doːr/, [doːr]

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دور • (dōr) m (plural أدوار (ʔadwār))

1. queue, line
2. role, part
3. time, turn, instance
4. (education) course

From Sanskrit द्वार (dvāra).

• IPA^(key): /duːr/

دوّر (dūr)

1. door

From Sanskrit धौरेय (dhaureya, “foremost”).

• IPA^(key): /doːr/

دور (dōr)

1. (anatomy) face

• Abd-El-Malek Lamuwal, Adam Baker (2013) “Southeastern Pashayi”, in Journal of the International Phonetic Association, volume 43, Cambridge: International Phonetic Association, pages 243-246

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀤𑀽𑀭 (dūra), from Sanskrit दूर (dūrá). Also influenced by Classical Persian دور (dūr).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪uːɾ/

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• Rhymes: -uːɾ

دور • (dūr) (Hindi spelling दूर)

1. distant, remote

دور • (dūr) (Hindi spelling दूर)

1. far, far off

From Arabic دَوْر (dawr).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ɔːɾ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːɾ

دور • (daur) m (Hindi spelling दौर)

1. period, era, age
2. stage, round, period

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