شور

شور (şôr, şûor)

1. Arabic spelling of şôr, şûor (“salty”)

From Sanskrit शत (śata), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćatám, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm. Compare Hindi सौ (sau), Urdu سو (sau), Gujarati સો (so), Assamese শ (xo).

شور (šor)

1. hundred

• Elena Bashir, Maula Nigah, Rahmat Karim Baig (2022) “شور”, in A digital Khowar-English dictionary with audio‎^[1], second edition, Chicago, I.L.: South Asia Language and Area Center, University of Chicago, archived from the original on 19 January 2023.

شور (plural شور-شور or شور٢)

1. Jawi spelling of syor.‎

Borrowed from Parthian 𐫢𐫇𐫡 (šwr /⁠šōr⁠/); compare with Middle Persian [script needed] (swr /⁠sōr⁠/). cognate with Northern Kurdish şor, sûr, Central Kurdish سوێر (swêr), Baluchi شور (šōr, šowr), Baluchi سور (sowr), Harzani سور (sür) and Pashto ښرنه (x̌arǝ́na, “saline”). Perhaps from Proto-Iranian *sauraH (“salty”), from Proto-Indo-European *súHros (“sour; salty”).

شور • (šur)

1. salty (of taste)

   Coordinate terms: شیرین (širin), تلخ (talx), ترش (torš), تند (tond)

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 1118:

     او ز بحر عذب آب شور خورد / تا که آب شور او را کور کرد

     ō z-i bahr-i azb āb-i šōr xward / tā ki āb-i šōr ō-rā kōr kard

     He has drunk salt water from the sweet Sea, so that the salt water has made him blind.

     (Classical Romanization)

• → Khalaj: şôr
• → Uzbek: shoʻr

Derived from the verb شوریدن (šuridan), شولیدن (šulidan).

شور • (šur)

1. excitement
2. uproar, clamor
3. Dastgāh-e Šur, one of the seven dastgahs of Persian Music.

شور • (šur)

1. present stem form of شستن (šostan, “to wash”)

From Classical Persian شور (šōr).

شور • (śor) m (Hindi spelling शोर)

1. noise
2. uproar, clamor

From Urdu شور (šōr).

شور (šōr)

1. noise
2. uproar, clamor