بہار

See also: بهار, تہار, and پہاڑ

Urdu

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Classical Persian (bahār, “spring”). Doublet of وَسَنْت (vasant) and بَسَنْت (basant).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bə.ɦɑːɾ/
Audio (Pakistan): (file)
Rhymes: -ɑːɾ

Noun

بَہار • (bahār) f (Hindi spelling बहार)

spring (season)
Synonym: وسنت (vasant)
blossom, bloom
Synonym: بہاراں (bahārā̃)
glory, splendor
beauty; elegance
prime of one's life; the bloom of youth

Declension

Declension of **بہار**
	singular	plural
direct	بَہار (bahār)	بَہاریں (bahārẽ)
oblique	بَہار (bahār)	بَہاروں (bahārõ)
vocative	بَہار (bahār)	بَہارو (bahāro)

Derived terms

بَہاردار (bahār-dār, “colorful”)
بہار رنگ (bahār-rang, “pleasant; colorful”, literally “spring-colour”)
بہار بے خزاں (bahār-e-be-xizā̃, “g”)
بَہارِسْتان (bahāristān, “garden”)

See also

Seasons in Urdu · مَوسَم (mausam) (layout · text) · category
بَہَار (bahār)	گَرْمی (garmī)	خِزاں (xizā̃)	سَرْدِی (sardī)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀯𑀺𑀳𑀸𑀭 (vihāra), from Sanskrit विहार (vihāra, “temple; monastery”).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bɪ.ɦɑːɾ/

Proper noun

بِہار • (bihār) m (Hindi spelling बिहार)

Bihar (a state in eastern India)

See also

states of India: ہِنْدُوسْتان کی رِیاسْتیں (hindūstān kī riyāstẽ)edit

آسام (āsām)
آنْدْھرا پْرَدیش (āndhrā pradeś)
اوڈِیشَہ (oḍīśa)
اَرُوناچَل پْرَدیش (arūnācal pradeś)
اُتَّر پْرَدیش (uttar pradeś)
اُتّّر کَھنْڈ
بِہار (bihār)
تامِل ناڈُو (tāmil nāḍū)
تِلَن٘گانَہ (tilaṅgāna)
تْرِیپُورَہ (trīpūra)
جَمُّوں و کَشْمِیر (jammū̃ o kaśmīr)
جھارْکَھنْڈ (jhārkhanḍ)
راجَسْتھان (rājasthān)
سِکِّم (sikkim)
مَدْھیَہ پْرَدیش (madhya pradeś)
مَغْرِبی بَن٘گال (maġribī baṅgāl)
مَنی پُور (manī pūr)
مَہاراشْٹْرا (mahārāśṭrā)
مِیزورَم (mīzoram)
میگھالِیَہ (meghāliya)
ناگالَینْڈ (nāgālainḍ)
پَنْجاب (panjāb)
چَھتِّیس گَڑھ (chattīs gaṛh)
کَرْناٹَک (karnāṭak)
کیرَلا (keralā)
گوا (goā)
گُجْرات (gujrāt)
ہَرِیانَہ (hariyāna)
ہِماچَل پْرَدیش (himācal pradeś)

Further reading

“بہار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
“بہار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بہار”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
Platts, John T. (1884) “بہار”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
John Shakespear (1834) “بـﮩار”, 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
S. W. Fallon (1879) “بـﮩـار”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.