अस्र

Borrowed from Classical Persian عَصْر (asr, “afternoon”). Cognate with Bengali আসর (āsor), Tamil அஸர் (asar).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /əsɾ/, [ɐsɾ], /ə.səɾ/, [ɐ.sɐɾ]

अस्र • (asra) m (Urdu spelling عَصْر)

1. (Islam) asr

• Bahri, Caturvedi, Dasa-Hindi (2022) “अस्र”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Hindi Dictionaries]

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐ́s.ɾɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɐs̪.ɾɐ/

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐs.ɾɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɐs̪.ɾɐ/

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *HásHram, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HásHram, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésh₂rom, from *h₁ésh₂r̥.

अस्र • (ásra) stem, n

1. blood
   • c. 400 CE, Kālidāsa, Raghuvaṃśa 16.15

Compare अश्रु (aśru).

अस्र • (asrá) stem, n

1. tear
   • c. 200 BCE – 200 CE, Manusmṛti
   • c. 500 BCE – 100 BCE, Rāmāyaṇa 3.52.37:

     जल प्रपात अस्र मुखाः शृन्गैः उच्छ्रित बाहवः ।
     सीतायाम् ह्रियमाणायाम् विक्रोशन्ति इव पर्वताः ॥

     jala prapāta asra mukhāḥ śṛngaiḥ ucchrita bāhavaḥ.
     sītāyām hriyamāṇāyām vikrośanti iva parvatāḥ.

     • 2002 translation by Desiraju Hanumanta Rao

       The mountains appeared bewailing with their waterfalls as shedding tears and with their peaks as upraised arms, while Seetha is thus being abducted.