سحر

From Proto-Semitic *šaḥ(a)r- (“dawn, morning”). Cognate with Akkadian 𒀉𒄘𒍣𒂵 (šērum), Hebrew שַׁחַר (šáḥar, “dawn”) and Ugaritic 𐎌𐎈𐎗 (šḥr, “dawn; tomorrow, the future”); see Canaanite deity Shahar.

سَحَر • (saḥar) m

2. (literary or archaic) dawn
3. predawn
4. foredawn, especially the last part of the night before daybreak

• (dawn): فَجْر (fajr), صُبْح (ṣubḥ), غَدَاة (ḡadāh), بُكْرَة (bukra)

• سَحُور (saḥūr, “the predawn or foredawn meal before fasting, usually eaten in the last part of the night before daybreak; suhur”)

• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “سحر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate.

سَحَرَ • (saḥara) I (non-past يَسْحَرُ (yasḥaru), verbal noun سُحُور (suḥūr))

1. (Islam) to eat before fasting at predawn or foredawn, especially in the last part of the night before daybreak

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

سَحْر or سَحَر • (saḥr or saḥar) m (dual سَحْرَان (saḥrān) or سَحَرَان (saḥarān), plural سُحُور (suḥūr))

2. lung

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

سِحْر • (siḥr) m (plural أَسْحَار (ʔasḥār) or سُحُور (suḥūr))

2. verbal noun of سَحَرَ (saḥara) (form I)
3. witchcraft, magic, sorcery, wizardry
4. charm; enchantment

• اِنْقَلَبَ السِّحْرُ عَلَى السَّاحِرِ (inqalaba s-siḥru ʕalā s-sāḥiri, idiom)

• Maltese: seħer
• → Azerbaijani: sehr
• → Bashkir: сихыр (sixır)
• → Baluchi: سحر (sihr)
• → Javanese: ꦱꦶꦏꦶꦂ (sikir)
• → Persian: سحر (sehr)
• → Malay: sihir
  • > Indonesian: sihir (inherited)
• → Ottoman Turkish: سحر (sihir)
  • Turkish: sihir
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Latin script: sìhīr

    Cyrillic script: сѝхӣр

• → Swahili: sihiri
• → Zazaki: sihir
• → Urdu: سِحْر (sihr)
• → Uyghur: سېھىر (sëhir)
• → Uzbek: sehr

سَحَرَ • (saḥara) I (non-past يَسْحَرُ (yasḥaru), verbal noun سِحْر (siḥr))

2. to bewitch, to charm, to spellbind, to fascinate, to curse
4. to hurt one's heart, to restrict one's chest or breathing

سَحَّرَ • (saḥḥara) II (non-past يُسَحِّرُ (yusaḥḥiru), verbal noun تَسْحِير (tasḥīr))

2. to conjure
4. to bewitch, to charm

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “سحر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 635–636
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “سحر”, 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 290
• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “سحر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1316-1318.
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “سحر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[3], London: W.H. Allen, page 483

From Arabic سِحْر (siḥr).

سحر • (sihr, sahr)

1. magic

• جاتو (játú)
• جادو (jádú)
• جادوگر
• سحرگو (sahargo)
• سحر کنوخ (sihr kanox)

From Arabic سَحَر (saḥar).

سحر (sahar)

1. dawn

From Arabic سَحَر (saḥar).

• IPA^(key): [sɛhɑɾ]

سحر • (sehar)

2. dawn, daybreak

   Synonyms: بام (bam), شفق (şafak), طاك (dañ, tañ), فجر (facr)

• سحرخیز (seharhız, “who rises from bed early in the morning”)
• سحرگاه (sehargâh) and سحرگه (sehargeh, “morning-time”)
• سحری (seharı, “matinal”)

From Arabic سِحْر (siḥr).

• (15th–17th century) IPA^(key): [sɯhɾ], [sɯhɯɾ]
• (18th–20th century) IPA^(key): [sihɾ], [sihiɾ]

سحر • (sıhr, sıhır, sihr, sihir)

2. magic, witchcraft

• Turkish: sihir
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin script: sìhīr

  Cyrillic script: сѝхӣр

Borrowed from Arabic سَحَر (saḥar).

Readings
Classical reading?	sahar
Dari reading?	sahar
Iranian reading?	sahar
Tajik reading?	sahar

سحر • (sahar)

2. dawn
   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 371”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[4]:

     ما درس سحر در ره میخانه نهادیم
     محصول دعا در ره جانانه نهادیم

     mā dars-i sahar dar rah-i mayxāna nihādēm
     mahsūl-i du'ā dar rah-i jānāna nihādēm

     We have cast away our morning classes on the way to the tavern;
     We have cast away the fruits of our prayers on the way to the beloved.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

سحر • (sahar)

1. a female given name, Sahar, from Arabic

Borrowed from Arabic سِحْر (siḥr).

Readings
Classical reading?	sihr
Dari reading?	sehr
Iranian reading?	sehr
Tajik reading?	sehr

سحر • (sehr)

2. witchcraft, magic, sorcery, wizardry

Borrowed from Classical Persian سَحَر (sahar), from Arabic سَحَر (saḥar).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sə.ɦəɾ/, [sɛ.ɦɛɾ]
• Rhymes: -ɛɾ

سَحَر • (sahar) f (Hindi spelling सहर)

2. dawn, daybreak

• سَحْری (sahrī, “suhur, a pre-dawn breakfast during the Ramadan fasting”)

سَحَر • (sahar) f (Hindi spelling सहर)

1. a female given name, Sehar, from Arabic

Borrowed from Classical Persian سِحْر (sihr), from Arabic سِحْر (siḥr).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /seːɦɾ/, /sɪɦɾ/, [sɛ.ɦɛɾ]

سِحْر • (sehr or sihr) m (Hindi spelling सेहर)

2. enchantment, sorcery, magic, wizardry, witchcraft

• جادُو (jādū)
• ٹونا (ṭonā)