دور

IPA^(key): /daw.wa.ra/

دَوَّرَ • (dawwara) II (non-past يُدَوِّرُ (yudawwiru), verbal noun تَدْوِير (tadwīr))

1. (transitive) to turn in a circle, to spin, to whirl, to revolve, to rotate
2. (transitive) to turn into a circle, to make round

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “دور”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 344

دَوْر • (dawr) m (plural أَدْوَار (ʔadwār))

1. verbal noun of دَارَ (dāra) (form I)
2. role

   تَلْعَبُ التِّكْنُولُوجْيَا دَوْرًا كَبِيرًا فِي تَسْهِيلِ حَيَاتِنَا ٱلْيَوْمِيَّةِ.

   talʕabu t-tiknūlūjyā dawran kabīran fī tashīli ḥayātinā l-yawmiyyati.

   Technology plays a great role in facilitating our daily lives.

3. turn

   جَاءَ دَوْرِي لِلتَّصْوِيتِ. ― jāʔa dawriy li-t-taṣwīti. ― It is my turn to vote.

   جَاءَ دَوْرِي فِي ٱلْكَلَامِ. ― jāʔa dawriy fī l-kalāmi. ― It is my turn to talk.

4. rotation
5. circle, cycle
6. vicissitude
7. age, period, epoch
8. roundabout way
9. fit of fever
10. floor, story
11. the world

• → Azerbaijani: dövr
• → Bashkir: дәүер (dəwer)
• → Chagatai: دور
  • Uyghur: دەۋر (dewr)
  • Uzbek: davr
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: दौर (daur)
  • Urdu: دور (daur)
• → Kazakh: дәуір (däuır)
• → Khalaj: dovr
• → Kyrgyz: доор (door)
• → Ottoman Turkish: دور (devr)
  • Turkish: devir
  • → Crimean Tatar: devir
  • → Romanian: dever
• → Persian: دور (dowr)
• → Spanish: ador
• → Turkmen: döwür
• → Kumyk: девюр (dewür)
• → Tatar: дәвер (däwer)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “دور”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen

• IPA^(key): /duːr/
• Rhymes: -uːr

دُور • (dūr) f pl

1. plural of دَار (dār)

دور

1. Arabic spelling of dur

Compare Sudanese Arabic داير (dāyir, “to want”).

دور • (dawwar) II (non-past يدور (yidōr, yidawwir))

1. (transitive) to want
   • 2019, الكتاب المقدس بالعربي الدارجي هنا تشاد [The Bible in Chadian Arabic]‎^[2], N'Djamena: Alliance biblique du Tchad, تكوين [Acts] 7:28:

     وَلَّا تِدَوْر تَكْتُلْنِي مِثِلْ أَمِسْ كَتَلْت الْمَصْرِي دَا؟›

     walla tidōr taktulni misil ʔamis katalt al-masri da?

     Do you want to kill me like you killed the Egyptian yesterday?"

• Heath, Judith, Mahadi, Mahamat Zene (2021) Lexique Arabe Tchadien-Français‎^[3] (in French), 11th edition, N'Djamena, Chad: SIL Chad, page 40
• Pommerol, Patrice Jullien de (1999) Dictionnaire Arabe Tchadien-Français (in French), Éditions Karthala, →ISBN, page 378

From Arabic دَوْر (dawr).

The plural form تدوار (tidwār) is from أَدْوَار (ʔadwār) with the construct ـَة (-at) found at the ending of numbers, i.e. خَمْسَة أَدْوَار (ḵamsat ʔadwār), سَبْعَة أَدْوَار (sabʕat ʔadwār).

• IPA^(key): [doːr]

دور • (dōr) m (plural ادوار (idwār) or تدوار (tidwār))

1. floor, storey

   عماره خمس تدوار ― ʕimāra ḵamas tidwār ― Five-storey building

2. turn (in a game)
3. role

Plural تدوار (tidwār) is used only in counting.

From Arabic دَوَّرَ (dawwara).

• IPA^(key): /daw.war/

دوّر • (dawwar) II (non-past يدوّر (yidawwir))

1. to search, to look for [with على]

From Arabic دَوْر (dawr).

• IPA^(key): /doːr/, [do̞ːr]

دور • (dōr) m (plural أدوار (ʔadwār))

1. floor (“storey”)

   Synonym: طابِق (ṭābig)

2. role, part
3. time, turn, instance

دُور (dovr)

1. Arabic spelling of dovr (“all around”)

دُور (dovr) (definite accusative دُوروُ, plural دُورلار)

1. Arabic spelling of dovr (“edge, border, surroundings”)

Borrowed from Arabic دَوْر (dawr).

دور • (devr)

1. a revolution, circuit, rotation
2. a circumference or periphery
3. a turn, twist, whorl
4. a mode of turning or revolving
5. a turn or circuit of duty or of action, a period of revolution of a heavenly body
6. a vicious circle of reasoning
7. a cycle, a period of time

• Turkish: devir
• → Romanian: dever

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 919

Contraction of دورور (durur, “it stands”).

دور • (dur)

1. (old or provincial by the 19th century) alternative spelling of در (dur, “it is”)

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 892
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 919

Borrowed from Persian دور (dur).

دور • (dur)

1. far, far off, distant

   Synonym: اوزاق (uzak)

2. absent
3. improbable, incredible

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[7], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 919

Borrowed from Arabic دُور (dūr), plural of دَار (dār).

دور • (dur)

1. houses
2. countries, regions

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[8], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 919

From Proto-Iranian *duHráh (“far”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *duHrás (“far”).^[1]

Cognate with Central Kurdish دوور (dûr, “far, distant”), Pashto لرې (lëre, “distant”), Sanskrit दूर (dūra, “distant, remote”), Avestan 𐬛𐬏𐬭𐬁𐬝 (dūrāt̰, “from afar”), Ancient Greek δηρός (dērós, “long”), Latin dūrus, Old Armenian երկար (erkar, “long, extended”).

Readings
Classical reading?	dūr
Dari reading?	dūr
Iranian reading?	dur
Tajik reading?	dur

دور • (dur)

1. far
2. distant

دور • (dur)

1. away

• → Azerbaijani: dur
• → Ottoman Turkish: دور (dur)

Borrowed from Arabic دَوْر (dawr), from دَارَ (dāra).

Readings
Classical reading?	dawr
Dari reading?	dawr
Iranian reading?	dowr
Tajik reading?	davr

دور • (dowr) (plural ادوار (advâr))

1. turn
2. cycle
3. circumference
4. period, era, time, age
5. revolution

• دوره (dowre)
• دوری (dowri)

From Arabic دَوَّرَ (dawwara).

• IPA^(key): /daw.war/, [ˈdaw.war]

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دوّر • (dawwar) II (present بدوّر (bidawwer))

1. (transitive) to turn

   بدوّر العجل ― bidawwer il ʕajal ― He turns the wheel.

2. to search, to look for

   دوّرت عليه بس ما لقيتوش

   dawwart alē bass mā laʔētoš

   I looked for him but I didn't find him.

From Arabic دَوْر (dawr).

• IPA^(key): /doːr/, [doːr]

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دور • (dōr) m (plural أدوار (ʔadwār))

1. queue, line
2. role, part
3. time, turn, instance
4. (education) course

From Sanskrit द्वार (dvāra).

• IPA^(key): /duːr/

دوّر (dūr)

1. door

From Sanskrit धौरेय (dhaureya, “foremost”).

• IPA^(key): /doːr/

دور (dōr)

1. (anatomy) face

• Abd-El-Malek Lamuwal, Adam Baker (2013) “Southeastern Pashayi”, in Journal of the International Phonetic Association, volume 43, Cambridge: International Phonetic Association, pages 243-246

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀤𑀽𑀭 (dūra), from Sanskrit दूर (dūrá). Also influenced by Classical Persian دور (dūr).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪uːɾ/

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• Rhymes: -uːɾ

دور • (dūr) (Hindi spelling दूर)

1. distant, remote

دور • (dūr) (Hindi spelling दूर)

1. far, far off

Borrowed from Classical Persian دَوْر (dawr), borrowed from Arabic دَوْر (dawr), from دَارَ (dāra).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ɔːɾ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːɾ

دور • (daur) m (Hindi spelling दौर)

1. period, era, age
2. stage, round, period

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “दूर”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press