امیدوار

From امید (omid, “hope”) +‎ ـوار (-vâr).

• Rhymes: -âr

امیدوار • (omid-vâr, ommid-vâr)

1. hopeful

• امیدوار بودن (omid-vâr budan, ommid-vâr budan)

First attested in c. 1609 as Middle Hindi امیدوار (ummēdvār), borrowed from Classical Persian اُمّیدْوَار (ummēdwār). Equivalent of اُمِّید (ummīd, “hope”) +‎ ـوَار (-vār).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʊm.miːd̪.ʋɑːɾ/
  • (dated or obsolete) IPA^(key): /ʊm.meːd̪.ʋɑːɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɾ
• Hyphenation: اُمْ‧مِید‧وار

اُمِّیدْوار • (ummīdvār) m (Hindi spelling उम्मीदवार)

1. candidate, contestant (in an election or examination etc.)

اُمِّیدْوار • (ummīdvār) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling उम्मीदवार)

1. hopeful

   Synonym: پُر اُمِّید (pur ummīd)

2. expectant

• “امیدوار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “امیدوار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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• S. W. Fallon (1879) “اُميدوار”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 139
• John Shakespear (1834) “امیدوار”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC