پہر

See also: پَہَر

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit प्रहर (prahara).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /pə.ɦəɾ/, [pə.ɦɛɾ], [pɛ.ɦɛɾ]
  • Rhymes: -əɾ
  • Hyphenation: پَ‧ہَر

Noun

پَہَر • (paharm (Hindi spelling पहर)

  1. unit of time equalling three hours

Declension

Declension of پہر
singular plural
direct پَہَر (pahar) پَہَر (pahar)
oblique پَہَر (pahar) پَہَروں (paharõ)
vocative پَہَر (pahar) پَہَرو (paharo)

Derived terms

  • پَہْرَہ (pahra, guard)

Further reading

  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “پہر”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 379
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “پہر”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 285
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پہر”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 166
  • پہر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “پہر”, 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, page 445
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “prahara”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
  • پہر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.