ابر

ابر • (abar) m

1. Lisan ud-Dawat spelling of અબર (abar, “cloud”)

ابر

1. Jawi spelling of abar.‎

From Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾbl), [script needed] (ʾp̄l /⁠abr⁠/, “cloud”), from Proto-Iranian *abráh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *abʰrás, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥bʰrós.

Cognate with Avestan 𐬀𐬡𐬭𐬀 (aβra), Sanskrit अभ्र (abhra), Latin imber and Ancient Greek ἀφρός (aphrós).

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ابر • (abr) (plural ابرها)

1. cloud
2. a branch of Persian miniature
3. sponge (a piece of porous material used for washing)

• → Azerbaijani: əbr
• → Bengali: আবর (abor)
• → Hindi: अब्र (abr)
• → Urdu: ابر (abr)

From Middle Persian 𐭬𐭣𐭬 (mdm /⁠abar⁠/) (whence also بر (bar)), from Proto-Iranian *upári, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *upári, from Proto-Indo-European *upér.

Cognates include English over, Latin super (whence English super), Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér), Old Armenian վեր (ver), German über, Avestan 𐬎𐬞𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌 (upaⁱri).

ابر • (abar)

1. A prefix roughly equivalent to English super-, English over-

   ابر (abar, “super”) + قدرت (qodrat, “power”) = ابرقدرت (abarqodrat, “superpower”)

   ابر (abar, “super”) + نواختر (now-axtar, “nova”) = ابرنواختر (abarnowaxtar, “supernova”)

• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “ابر”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 66a

ابر (abr)

1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv, Kuzarg) cloud

Borrowed from Classical Persian ابر (abr).

ابر • (abr) m (Hindi spelling अब्र)

1. cloud

   Synonym: بادل (bādal)

• ابری (abrī)

From ابل (abal), from Sanskrit [Term?].

ابر • (abar) (Hindi spelling अबर)

1. weak

From اب (ab).

ابر • (abar) (Hindi spelling अबर)

1. now

• اب (ab)