تلوار

Punjabi

Etymology

From Sanskrit तरवारि (taravāri).

Noun

تلوار • (talavār) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਤਲਵਾਰ)

  1. sword

Urdu

Etymology

First attested as Middle Hindi تَلْوَار (talvār) / تَرْوَار (tarvār), inherited from Sanskrit तरवारि (taravāri, sword; scimitar). Compare with Punjabi تَلوار (talvār) and Sindhi ترارِ (tarārī).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /t̪əl.ʋɑːɾ/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːɾ
  • Hyphenation: تَل‧وار

Noun

تَلْوَار • (talvār) f (Hindi spelling तलवार)

  1. a sword.
    Synonym: شمشیر (śamśīr)

Declension

Declension of تلوار
singular plural
direct تلوار (talvār) تلواریں (talvārẽ)
oblique تلوار (talvār) تلواروں (talvārõ)
vocative تلوار (talvār) تلوارو (talvāro)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • تلوار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • تلوار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “تلوار”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “تلوار”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “تلوار”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “تلوار”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “taravāri”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 324
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