برف

Borrowed from Persian برف (barf).

برف • (berf)

1. snow, the frozen state of water that falls as precipitation

   Synonyms: ثلج (selc), قار (kar)

• Turkish: berf

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “berf”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 554
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “برف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 261
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Nix”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1141
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “برف”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 775
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “budak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “برف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 356

From Middle Persian 𐭥𐭯𐭫 (ʿpl /⁠wafr⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *wafrah (“snow”). Compare Baluchi برپ (barp), Central Kurdish بەفر (befr), Northern Kurdish berf, Pashto واوره (wāwra), Wakhi ورف (warf).

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• Rhymes: -arf

برف • (barf)

1. snow

• برفی (barfi)
• برف آمدن (barf âmadan)
• برف باریدن (barf bâridan)
• برف‌روب (barf-rub)
• آدم برفی (âdam-barfi)

• → Bengali: বরফ (boroph)
• → Bhojpuri: बरफ (baraph)
• → Gujarati: બરફ (baraph)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: बर्फ़ (barf)

  Urdu: برف (barf)

• → Marathi: बर्फ (barpha)
• → Nepali: बरफ (baraph)
• → Omani Arabic: برف (barf)
  • → Swahili: barafu
    • → Luganda: bbalaafu
• → Ottoman Turkish: برف (berf)
• → Punjabi: ਬਰਫ਼ / برف (barf)
• → Sindhi: بَرْفَ (barfa)
• → Somali: baraf
• → Varli: બરફ

Borrowed from Classical Persian بَرْف (barf).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /bə.ɾəf/, [bɐ˦.ɾɐfᵊ]

بَرَف • (baraf) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਬਰਫ਼)

1. snow
2. ice

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “برف”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• “ਬਰਫ਼”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025

Borrowed from Classical Persian بَرْف (barf).

• IPA^(key): [bərfə]

بَرفَ • (barfa) f (Devanagari बर्फ़)

1. snow
2. ice

• Khānu, Balocu (1960–1988) “بَرفَ”, in Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāta (in Sindhi), Hyderabad, Sindh: Sindhī Adabī Borḍ
• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “بَرْفَ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society

برف (barf)

1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv) snow

Borrowed from Classical Persian بَرْف (barf).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bəɾf/
• (Punjabic Urdu) IPA^(key): [bə.ɾəf]
• Rhymes: -əɾf

بَرْف • (barf) f (Hindi spelling बर्फ़)

1. ice
2. snow
3. (figurative) the cold, frigid
4. (figurative) white, shining

• S. W. Fallon (1879) “برف”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 247
• Platts, John T. (1884) “برف”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 147
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “برف”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 109
• “برف”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• John Shakespear (1834) “برف”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 243
• “برف”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.