یار

• Rhymes: -ɑːr

Contraction of Middle Persian (and archaic New Persian) یاور (yâvar). Akin to Manichaean Middle Persian hyʾr (/⁠hayyār⁠/, “helper, friend”).

یار • (yār / yâr) (plural یاران (yārān / yârân), Tajik spelling ёр)

1. (literary) friend, lover, companion
2. (literary) assistant, defender, helper
3. (sports) a player in a team
4. strength, power
5. pestle

• یار و یاور (yâr-o-yâvar)
• یارانه (yârâne)

• → Azerbaijani: yar
• → Bashkir: йәр (yər)
• → Chagatai: يار
  • Uyghur: يار (yar)
  • Uzbek: yor / ёр (yor)
• → Gujarati: યાર (yār)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: यार (yār)

  Urdu: یار (yār)

  • → English: yaar
• → Kazakh: жар (jar)
• → Middle Armenian: եար (ear)
  • Armenian: յար (yar)
• Ottoman Turkish: یار (yār)
  • Turkish: yar
  • → Laz: ჲარი (yari)
• → Punjabi: یار (yār) / ਯਾਰ (yār)
• → Marwari: यार (yār)

• یاور (yâvar)

As in دچار which is from Old Persian: 𐎯𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐎶 (dušiyāram, “bad year, drought, ill-crop”), from Avestan: 𐬛𐬎𐬲𐬌𐬌𐬁𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀 (dužiiāⁱriia, “bad year, drought, harvest bringing bad seasons”), from ⇒ Proto-Iranian: *dušyārah (“bad year, drought”)

یار • (yār / yâr) (Tajik spelling ёр)

1. (archaic) year

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “يار”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 1525
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 399

Borrowed from Classical Persian یار (yār).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /jäːɾᵊ/

یار • (yār) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਯਾਰ)

1. friend, pal
2. dude, bro

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “یار”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• “ਯਾਰ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025

Borrowed from Classical Persian یار (yār).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /jɑːɾ/

یار • (yār) m or f (Hindi spelling यार)

1. pal
2. buddy
3. friend
4. comrade
5. companion
6. lover
7. mistress

• → English: yaar

From Urdu یار (yār).

یار (yār)

1. friend, buddy, pal
2. lover