بقار

Occupational noun from the root ب ق ر (b q r).

بَقَّار • (baqqār) m (plural بَقَّارُون (baqqārūn), feminine بَقَّارَة (baqqāra))

1. somebody who slits
   1. grave-digger

      Synonym: حَفَّار (ḥaffār)

   2. a worker in iron, blacksmith

      Synonym: حَدَّاد (ḥaddād)

Occupational noun from بَقَر (baqar, “cattle”).

بَقَّار • (baqqār) m (plural بَقَّارُون (baqqārūn), feminine بَقَّارَة (baqqāra))

1. somebody who has many بَقَر (baqar) or sells them
2. (with the article) the star β Boötis

• → Ottoman Turkish: بقار (bakkar)

From Arabic بَقَّار (baqqār, “cattle-dealer”).

بقار • (bakkar)

1. one whose occupation is with oxen, such as a cattle-drover or a cattle-dealer

   Synonym: صیغیرتماج (sığırtmaç)

2. (astronomy) Boötes, a circumpolar constellation of the northern sky

• بقاری (bakkari)

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بقار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, columns 855–856
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بقار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 373

From Arabic بَقَّار (baqqār).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bəq.qɑːɾ/

بَقّار • (baqqār) m (Hindi spelling बक़्क़ार)

1. cattle trader, cattle dealer
2. blacksmith

   Synonym: لوہار (lohār)

• “بقار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “بقار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.