کمر

کَمَر (kamar, kəmər) (definite accusative کَمَری or کَمَرؽ, plural کَمَرلَر or کَمَرلار)

1. Arabic spelling of kamar, kəmər (“hillside, boulder”)

From Middle Persian [script needed] (kml /⁠kamar⁠/, “waist, belt, girdle”), 𐫞𐫖𐫡 (qmr /⁠kamar⁠/, “vault”) from Old Persian, from Proto-Iranian *kamarā- (“something curved”), from *kamárati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kmárati, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂m-ér-e-ti, from *kh₂em- (“to bend, curve”) (see there for further cognates). Doublet of کمرا (kamrâ).[1]

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• IPA^(key): [kʲæmæɾ]

کمر • (kamar)

1. waist
2. girdle, belt
3. the middle of a mountain
4. the flank of an army
5. arch, cupola, dome, arched bridge

• کمربند (kamar-band)

• → Armenian: քամար (kʻamar)
• → Azerbaijani: kəmər
• → Middle Bengali: কমর (komor)
  • Bengali: কোমর (kōmor)
• → Georgian: ქამარი (kamari)
  • → Bats: ქამარ (kamar)
• → Gujarati: કમર (kamar)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: कमर (kamar)

  Urdu: کمر (kamar)

• → Kashmiri: کَمَر (kamar)
• → Khalaj: kamar
• → Marathi: कंबर (kambar)
• → Punjabi: ਕਮਰ (kamar)
• → Ottoman Turkish: كمر (kemer)
  • Turkish: kemer
  • → Albanian: qemer
  • → Armenian: քէմէր (kʻēmēr), ք^յա̈մա̈ր (kʻ^yämär)
  • → Bulgarian: кеме́р (kemér)
  • → Greek: κεμέρι (keméri)
  • → Romanian: chimír, chimér

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “کمر”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 1049

Borrowed from Classical Persian کمر (kamar).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /kə.məɾ/

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• Rhymes: -əɾ

کمر • (kamar) f (Hindi spelling कमर)

1. waist