تہوار
Urdu
Alternative forms
- تِیوہَار (tiyohār) — dated
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Hindi تیوہار (tyvhar /tiyohār/) (c. 1503),[1] from Apabhramsa तिहिवार (tihivāra), from Sanskrit *तिथि-वार (*tithi-vāra).[2]
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /t̪ɪɦ.ʋɑːɾ/, [t̪eɦ.ʋɑːɾ]
- Rhymes: -ɑːɾ
- Hyphenation: تِہ‧وار
Noun
تِہْوَار • (tihvār) m (Hindi spelling तिहवार or तेहवार)
- day of festival, celebration, holiday
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | تِہْوَار (tihvār) | تِہْوَار (tihvār) |
| oblique | تِہْوَار (tihvār) | تِہْوَاروں (tihvārõ) |
| vocative | تِہْوَار (tihvār) | تِہْوَارو (tihvāro) |
References
- ^ “تہوار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*tithivāra”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 331
Further reading
More information
- “تہوار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “تہوار”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “تہوار”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “تہوار”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
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