لہور

Punjabi

Etymology

Unknown or disputed. A legend claims to be inherited from Sanskrit लव (lava, “Lava”) +‎ पुर (pura, “fortress; city”), literally “city of Lava”, from Ramayana, a Hindu epic.[1]. Compare Kashmiri لوہوٗر (lohūr) and Urdu لاہَوْر (lāhaur).

Pronunciation

(Standard Punjabi) Phonetic: lɔ̄̀ră, lṑră IPA^(key): /lɔː˨ɾə̆/, /loː˨ɾə̆/

Proper noun

لَہَور or لَہور • (lahaur or lahor) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਲਹੌਰ)

Lahore (a city, the provincial capital of Punjab, Pakistan)
جِنے لَہَور نَئیں تَکیا، اوْہ جَمِیا ہی نَئیں۔
jine lahaur na'īṉ takeyā, oh jamīyā hī na'īṉ.
The one who hasn't seen Lahore has yet to see anything.

Derived terms

لَہَورِیا (lahaurīyā, “Lahorite”)

खोज में उपलब्ध हस्तलिखित हिंदी ग्रंथों का त्रयोदश त्रैवार्षिक विवरण [सन् १९२६ - १९२८ ई॰]‎, Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracharini Sabha, 1926-1928 (published 1953), page 36 of 812: “ये लाहौर का दूसरा नाम लवपुर भी बताते हैं। ― He states that Lavapura is an alternative name of Lahaur.”

Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “لَہور”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

[1] खोज में उपलब्ध हस्तलिखित हिंदी ग्रंथों का त्रयोदश त्रैवार्षिक विवरण [सन् १९२६ - १९२८ ई॰]‎, Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracharini Sabha, 1926-1928 (published 1953), page 36 of 812: “ये लाहौर का दूसरा नाम लवपुर भी बताते हैं। ― He states that Lavapura is an alternative name of Lahaur.”