سویرا

Urdu

Alternative forms

  • سَبیرا (saberā)

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit *सवेल (*savela).[1] Cognate with Bhojpuri सबेर (sabēr).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /sə.ʋeː.ɾɑː/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː
  • Hyphenation: سَ‧وی‧را

Noun

سَویرا • (saverā) m (Hindi spelling सवेरा)

  1. dawn, sunrise, daybreak
    Synonyms: صُبْح (subh), بھور (bhor), تَڑکا
  2. opportunity, chance

References

  1. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*savēla”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 767

Further reading

More information
  • “سویرا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “سویرا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سويرا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 392
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “سويرا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “سویرا”, 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
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “سویرا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
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