تلوار

Punjabi

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit तरवारि (taravāri, “sword; scimitar”).

Noun

تَلْوَار • (talvār) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਤਲਵਾਰ)

  1. sword

Declension

Declension of تلوار
singular plural
direct تَلْوَار (talvār) تَلْوَار (talvār)
oblique تَلْوَار (talvār) تَلْوَاراں (talvārāṉ)
vocative تَلْوَارا (talvārā) تَلْوَارو (talvāro)
ablative تَلْوَاروں (talvāroṉ) تَلْوَاراں (talvārāṉ)
locative تَلْوَارے (talvāre) تَلْوَارِیں (talvārīṉ)
instrumental تَلْوَاروں (talvāroṉ) –

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Hindi تَلْوَار (tlvar) (c. 1606) / تَرْوَار (trvar) (c. 1611),[1] from Sanskrit तरवारि (taravāri, “sword; scimitar”).[2]

Cognates

Assamese তৰোৱাল (torüal), Bengali তলোয়ার (tolōẇar), Gujarati તલવાર (talvār), Kashmiri तरवार (tarawār), Konkani तलवार (talvār), Marathi तलवार (talvār), Marwari तरवार (tarvār), Nepali तरवार (tarawār), Odia ତରୁଆରି (taruāri), Punjabi تَلْوار / ਤਲਵਾਰ (talvār), and Sindhi ترارِ / तरारि (tarāri).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /t̪əl.ʋɑːɾ/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːɾ
  • Hyphenation: تَل‧وار

Noun

تَلْوَار • (talvār) f (Hindi spelling तलवार)

  1. a sword
    Synonym: شمشیر (śamśīr)

Declension

Declension of تلوار
singular plural
direct تلوار (talvār) تلواریں (talvārẽ)
oblique تلوار (talvār) تلواروں (talvārõ)
vocative تلوار (talvār) تلوارو (talvāro)

Derived terms

  • تلواری (talvārī)
  • تَلوار باز (talvār-bāz, “swordsman”)
  • تَلوار بازی (talvār-bāzī, “sword-fighting; fencing”)
  • تَلْوار بَنْد (talvār-band, “warrior; soldier”, literally “sword-holder”)
  • نَنْگی تَلوار (naṇgī-talvār, “unsheathed sword; fearless person”, literally “naked sword”)

References

  1. ^ “تلوار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  2. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “taravāri”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 324

Further reading

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