مارخور
Persian
Alternative forms
- مارخوار (mârxâr)
Etymology
From مار (mâr, “snake”) + خور (xor, “present stem of the verb 'to eat'”).
Noun
مارخور • (mârxor)
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian مارخوار (mār-xʷār, literally “snake-eater”), variant of مارخور.
Noun
مارخور • (mārxor) m (Hindi spelling मारख़ोर)
Descendants
- → English: markhor
References
- “مارخور”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مارخور”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “مارخور”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- “مارخور”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.