મિહર

Gujarati

Alternative forms

  • મેહર (mehar)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مهر (mihr), from Middle Persian mtr' (Mihr), from Old Persian 𐎷𐎰𐎼 (Miθra), from Avestan 𐬨𐬌𐬚𐬭𐬀 (miθra, “covenant, contract, oath”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mitra (“covenant, treaty, agreement, promise”). Doublet of મિત્ર (mitra), મહર (mahar), and મિથ્ર (mithra).

Pronunciation

Noun

મિહર • (mihar) m

  1. kindness
  2. love

Proper noun

મિહર • (mihar) m (Zoroastrianism)

  1. Mehr, the seventh month of the solar Persian calendar.
  2. Name of the sixteenth day of any month of the solar Persian calendar.
  3. (astronomy) the Sun
  4. Mithra, a Zoroastrian deity.
    Synonym: મિથ્ર (mithra)

See also

Zoroastrian calendar monthsedit
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