پیار

First attested in c. 1611 as Middle Hindi پیار (piyār /⁠pyār⁠/), inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀧𑀺𑀆𑀭 (piāra), from Sanskrit प्रियकार (priyakāra), compound of प्रिय (priyá) +‎ कार (kāra).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pɪ.jɑːɾ/, /pjɑːɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɾ

پیار • (piyār or pyār) m (Hindi spelling प्यार)

1. love, romance

   Synonyms: عِشْق ('iśq), پْریم (prem), مُحَبَّت (muhabbat), اُلْفَت (ulfat)

2. love, friendship

   Synonym: مُحَبَّت (muhabbat)

3. affection; attachment (commonly with inanimate objects, or connoted with feelings)
4. (euphemistic) a kiss (usually for a child)
5. caress (ie. act of endearment)
6. grace, respect (from an elder)
7. grace, compassion, benevolence
8. (rare) beloved, dear (often vocative)

• “پیار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “پیار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پيار”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John Thompson (1884) “پيار”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “پيار”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 389
• John Shakespear (1834) “پیار”, 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
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “priyakāra”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 503