لہور

Punjabi

Etymology

Inherited from Old Punjabi ਲਾਹੋਰੁ (lāhoru), further unknown or disputed. A legend claims to be inherited from Sanskrit लव (lava, “Lava”) +‎ पुर (pura, “fortress; city”), literally “city of Lava”, from Ramayana, a Hindu epic.[1] Compare Kashmiri لوہوٗر (lohūr) and Urdu لاہَوْر (lāhaur).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

لَہَور or لَہور • (lahaur or lahor) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਲਹੌਰ)

  1. Lahore (a city, the provincial capital of Punjab, Pakistan)
    جیہنے لہور نہیں تکیا، اوہ جمیا ہی نہیں۔
    jīhne lahaur nahīṉ takkeyā, oh jammeyā hī nahīṉ.
    The one who hasn't seen Lahore has yet to see anything.

Derived terms

  • لَہَورِی (lahaurī, “Lahorite”)

Further reading

  • Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “لَہور”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
  • Bashir, Kanwal (2012) “لہور”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Hyattsville, MD: Dunwoody Press
  1. ^ खोज में उपलब्ध हस्तलिखित हिंदी ग्रंथों का त्रयोदश त्रैवार्षिक विवरण [सन् १९२६ - १९२८ ई॰]‎[1], Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracharini Sabha, 1926-1928 (published 1953), page 36 of 812: “ये लाहौर का दूसरा नाम लवपुर भी बताते हैं। ― He states that Lavapura is an alternative name of Lahaur.”
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