دار

Derived from the active participle of the verb دَرَّ (darra, “to flow copiously”).

دَارّ • (dārr) (feminine دَارَّة (dārra), masculine plural دَارُّونَ (dārrūna), feminine plural دَارَّات (dārrāt))

1. flowing copiously
2. productive, rich, lucrative
3. profitable

The noun originally referred to the buildings surrounding a court. Cognate with Akkadian 𒂦 (dūrum, “city wall”) and Biblical Hebrew דּוּר (dûr, “to move in a circle”), דָּר (dār, “to dwell”) and דּוֹר (dôr, “habitation”).

IPA^(key): /daːr/

دَارَ • (dāra) I (non-past يَدُورُ (yadūru), verbal noun دَوْر (dawr) or دَوَرَان (dawarān))

1. to turn, to revolve, to rotate

   تَدُورُ ٱلْأَرْضُ حَوْلَ ٱلشَّمْسِ.

   tadūru l-ʔarḍu ḥawla š-šamsi.

   The Earth revolves around the Sun.

2. to go around, to circulate
3. to go around, to move around

• IPA^(key): /daːr/

دَار • (dār) f (plural دُور (dūr) or دِيَار (diyār) or دِيَارَات (diyārāt) or دِيَرَة (diyara))

1. house
2. building, structure, edifice
3. land, country

• → English: Dar
• → Malay: darul

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “دار”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 470–471
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “دار”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 69
• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “دار”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 930.
• Shapira, Dan D. Y. (2009) “Irano-Arabica: contamination and popular etymology. Notes on the Persian and Arabic lexicons (with references to Aramaic, Hebrew and Turkic)”, in Христианский Восток – Новая Серия, volume 5 (XI), Moscow: Издательство Российской Академии Наук и Государственного Эрмитажа, page 172, with the exaggerated claim of دَار (dār, “house”) being an Aramaic loan-word
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “دار”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 343–344

From Middle Persian dār,^[1] from Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎽𐎢𐎺 (d-a-ru-u-v /⁠dāruv⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *dā́ru. Cognate with Persian دار, Laki دار (dar), Central Kurdish دار (dar), Northern Kurdish dar, Tat dar, Talysh do, Mazanderani دار, Baluchi دار.

دار (daar)

1. tree

From Proto-Iranian *dā́ru, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dāru, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru.

دار • (dár)

1. wood
2. stick

From Proto-Iranian *dā́ru, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dā́ru, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru.

دار (dar)

1. tree
2. wood (substance, timber)
3. stick, staff, rod

From Proto-Iranian *dā́ru, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dāru, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru.

دار (dâr)

1. tree

• IPA^(key): /daːr/

From Arabic أَدَارَ (ʔadāra, “to manage, to operate”).

دار • (dār) I (non-past يدير (ydīr))

1. to do

   Synonym: عمل (ʕmal)

From Arabic دَارَ (dāra).

دار • (dār) I (non-past يدور (ydūr))

1. to turn
2. to go around
3. to rotate

From Arabic دَار (dār).

دار • (dār) f (plural ديور (dyūr) or ديورة (dyūra), diminutive دويرة (dwīra))

1. house
2. family, folks

   قلت للدار باللي ما جايش للمغرب هاد راس العام.

   qult l-ed-dār belli ma jāyši l-el-maḡrib hād rās el-ʕām

   I told my family I won't be coming to Morocco at the end of the year.

From Arabic دار (dār, “house”).

• IPA^(key): /daːr/

دار • (dār) m

1. living-room

   تفضل، قاعدين سوا بالدار.

   tfaḍḍal, ʾāʿdīn sawa bi-d-dār

   Come in, we’re all sitting in the living-room.

Readings
Classical reading?	dār
Dari reading?	dār
Iranian reading?	dâr
Tajik reading?	dor

• Rhymes: -ɑːr

From Middle Persian [script needed] (dʾl, “tree, gallows; wood”), from Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎽𐎢𐎺 (d-a-ru-u-v /⁠dāruv⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *dā́ru, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dāru, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru.

دار • (dâr)

1. tree
2. gallows
3. wood

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “dār”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 24

Borrowed from Arabic دَار (dār).

دار • (dâr)

1. house
2. seat

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “دار”, in New Persian–English dictionary, volume 1, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim, page 780
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “دار”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

دار • (dâr)

1. present stem of داشتن (dâštan, “to have”)

• IPA^(key): /daːr/, [dɑːr]

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From Arabic دَارَ (dāra).

دار • (dār) I (present بدور (bidūr), active participle داير (dāyer))

1. (intransitive) to revolve, to turn
2. to roam, to travel around, to wander about

From Arabic أَدَارَ (ʔadāra).

• أدار (ʔadār)

دار • (dār) I (present بدير (bidīr))

1. (transitive) to turn, to direct (toward)
2. to administer, to manage, to run
3. to pour out

   ديرلي شاي! ― dīr-li šay ― Pour me out some tea!

• دار باله (dār bālo, “to be careful”)

From Arabic دَار (dār).

دار • (dār) f (plural دور (dūr))

1. house, home

   Synonym: بيت (bēt)

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑːɾ/

Borrowed from Classical Persian ـدار (-dār).

ـدار • (-dār) (Hindi spelling -दार)

1. having, possessing, holding

Borrowed from Classical Persian دار (dār).

دار • (dār) m (Hindi spelling दार)

1. wood
2. gallows

Borrowed from Arabic دَار (dār).

دار • (dār) m (Hindi spelling दार)

1. house
2. seat

• “دار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “دار”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “دار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.

دار (dār)

1. a sloping place on a mountain