گھر

گھر • (ghar) n (Lisan ud-Dawat)

1. Arabic spelling of ઘર (ghar)

Inherited from Old Punjabi ਘਰੁ (gharu), from Prakrit 𑀖𑀭 (ghara), from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀕𑀭𑁆𑀳 (*garha), from a metathesized form of Sanskrit गृह (gṛhá), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gʰr̥dʰás (“house”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰr̥dʰ-ó-s, from *gʰerdʰ- (“enclosure”).

گھر (ghar)

1. house

Inherited from Old Punjabi ਘਰੁ (gharu), from Prakrit 𑀖𑀭 (ghara), from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀕𑀭𑁆𑀳 (*garha), from a metathesized form of Sanskrit गृह (gṛhá),^[1] from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gʰr̥dʰás (“house”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰr̥dʰ-ó-s, from *gʰerdʰ- (“enclosure”). Compare Northern Hindko کَہار (kahār). Far cognate with Persian کرت (kart) and English garth / yard, Scottish Gaelic gàrradh (“garden; wall”) and Irish garraí (“garden; small enclosure; halo”), among others. Doublet of گَڑھ (gaṛh).

• (Standard Punjabi) Phonetic: kàră IPA^(key): /kə˨ɾə̆/
• (Pakistan) Phonetic: kā̀ră IPA^(key): [käː˥˩ɾə̆] (singular)

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• Rhymes: -ə˨ɾ, -äː˨ɾ

گَھر • (ghar) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਘਰ)

1. house, home

   Synonyms: مَکاݨ (makāṇ, “house; building”), (hut, modest home) کُلّا (kullā)

   • 2006, غلام حسین ساجد [G̲h̲ulām Ḥusain Sājid], نیندر بھنی رات [Nīndar bhinnī rāt], Lahore: سانجھ [Sānjh], →ISBN, page 69:

     تے اوہ کِسے وی قیمت تے کِسے نوں اپنے گھر واڑن لئی راضی نہیں سی ہُوئی۔

     te oh kise vī qīmat te kise nūṉ apṇe ghar vāṛaṇ la'ī rāẓī nahīṉ sī hū'ī.

     And she wasn't prepared to let anyone inside her house, at any cost.

2. (by extension) household; family

   Synonyms: خاندان (xāndān), گَھرانا (gharānā)

   • 2000, راوی [rāvī], volume 87, Lahore: Government College, →OCLC:

     جے غریب ماں پے بالاں دی وجہ توں گھر دی آمدن ودھا لیندے نیں تے ایہدے وچ حرج ای کیہ اے۔

     je ġarīb māṉ pe bālāṉ dī vajah toṉ ghar dī āmadan vadhā lainde neṉ te aehde vicc ḥaraj ī kīh ae.

     What bother is it if [some] poor parents decide to increase the household income through their children.

3. (figuratively) homeland, country, birthplace

   Synonyms: دیس (des), وَطَن (vat̤an)

4. (in compounds) building, place

   Synonyms: خانَہ (xānah), گَھرا (gharā)

   گَھنٹا گَھر ― ghanṭā ghar ― clock tower (literally, “clock house”)

   ڈاک گَھر ― ḍāk ghar ― post office (literally, “post house”)

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “گھر”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• Bashir, Kanwal (2012) “گھر”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Hyattsville, MD: Dunwoody Press
• “ਘਰ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀖𑀭 (ghara), from a metathesized form of Sanskrit गृह (gṛha).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɡʱəɾ/
• (Punjabic Urdu) IPA^(key): [ɡɐɾ]
• Rhymes: -əɾ

گَھر • (ghar) m (Hindi spelling घर)

1. (chiefly) house, home

   Synonym: مکان (makān)

2. place, abode

• “گھر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “گھر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “گھر”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.