स्वर

Borrowed from Sanskrit स्वर (svára).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /sʋəɾ/, [sʋɐɾ]

स्वर • (svar) m (Urdu spelling سور)

1. voice, sound

   Synonym: आवाज़ (āvāz)

   उसने ऊँचे स्वर से गाया। ― usne ū̃ce svar se gāyā. ― He sang in a loud voice.

2. (music) note, tune

   उसने बहुत तीक्ष्ण स्वर निकाला।

   usne bahut tīkṣṇa svar nikālā.

   He hit a very shrill note.

3. (grammar) vowel

   Antonym: व्यंजन (vyañjan)

• स्वरविज्ञान (svarvijñān)

• Bahri, Hardev (1989) “स्वर”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons.

From Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to resound”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /sʋɐ́.ɾɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈs̪ʋɐ.ɾɐ/

स्वर • (svára, svará) stem, m

1. sound, noise
2. voice
3. (music) a note
4. (prosody) the Sanskrit pitch accent
5. (phonetics, orthography) a vowel

   Antonym: व्यञ्जन (vyañjana)

   दीर्घ स्वर ― dīrgha svara ― long vowel

   ह्रस्व स्वर ― hrasva svara ― short vowel

• → Kapampangan: siwala
• → Khmer: សូរ (sou)
• → Malay: suara
  • Indonesian: suara
• → Old Javanese: swara, sora
  • Javanese: ꦱ꧀ꦮꦫ (swara)
  • → Balinese: ᬲ᭄ᬯᬭ (suara)
  • > Javanese: ꦱꦺꦴꦫ (sora, “loud”) (inherited)
    • >? Malay: sorak
      • > Indonesian: sorak (inherited)
• → Tamil: சுரம் (curam)
• → Telugu: స్వరము (svaramu)

• Monier Williams (1899) “स्वर”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1285.