مارخور

Persian
Dari مارخور, مارخوار
Iranian Persian
Tajik морхӯр, морхор

Alternative forms
  • مارخوار (mârxâr)

Etymology

مار (mâr, “snake”) +‎ خور (xor, “present stem of the verb 'to eat'”)

Noun

مارخور • (mârxor)

  1. markhor

Urdu
مارخور

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مارخوار (mār-xʷār, literally “snake-eater”), variant of مارخور.

Noun

مارخور • (mārxor) m (Hindi spelling मारख़ोर)

  1. markhor

Descendants
  • → English: markhor

References
  • “مارخور”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مارخور”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John Thompson (1884) “مارخور”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
  • “مارخور”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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