बर्फ़

• बरफ़ (baraf)

Borrowed from Classical Persian برف (barf). Compare Assamese বৰফ (boroph), Bengali বরফ (boroph), Gujarati બરફ (baraph), Marathi बर्फ (barpha), Nepali बरफ (baraph), Punjabi ਬਰਫ਼ (baraf), all Persian borrowings.

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /bə.ɾəf/, [bɐ.ɾɐf], /bə.ɾəpʰ/, [bɐ.ɾɐpʰ], /bəɾf/, [bɐɾf], /bəɾpʰ/, [bɐɾpʰ]

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बर्फ़ • (barf) f (Urdu spelling برف)

1. snow

   कल यहाँ दो इंच बर्फ़ पड़ेगी।

   kal yahā̃ do iñc barf paṛegī.

   Two inches of snow will fall here tomorrow.

2. ice

   Synonym: हिम (him)

3. ice cubes

• बर्फ़ी (barfī)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “barf”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press