بحر

See also: تخر, بجز, تجز, and تجر

Arabic

Etymology 1

From Proto-Semitic *baḥr- (sea), from the root ب ح ر (b-ḥ-r).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baħr/
  • (file)

Noun

بَحْر (baḥr) m (plural بِحَار (biḥār) or بُحُور (buḥūr) or أَبْحُر (ʾabḥur))

  1. verbal noun of بَحَرَ (baḥara) (form I)
  2. sea
  3. large river
  4. a noble or great man (possessed of a sea of knowledge, experience and wisdom)
  5. (poetry) poetic meter
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Denominal verb from بَحْر (baḥr, sea).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baħ.ħa.ra/

Verb

بَحَّرَ (baḥḥara) II, non-past يُبَحِّرُ‎ (yubaḥḥiru)

  1. to travel by sea, to make a voyage
Conjugation

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba.ħi.ra/

Verb

بَحِرَ (baḥira) I, non-past يَبْحَرُ‎ (yabḥaru)

  1. to be startled, to be bewildered with fright
Conjugation

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba.ħa.ra/

Verb

بَحَرَ (baḥara) I, non-past يَبْحَرُ‎ (yabḥaru)

  1. to slit, to cut lengthwise
  2. to split
  3. to enlarge, to make wide
Conjugation

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba.ħar/

Noun

بَحَر (baḥar) m

  1. verbal noun of بَحِرَ (baḥira) (form I)
Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1830), بحر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 87–88
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), بحر”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 88–89
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), بحر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 156–157
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), بحر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 66–67

Hijazi Arabic

بَحَر

Etymology

From Arabic بَحْر (baḥr).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baħar/

Noun

بَحَر • (baḥar) m

(plural بُحور ‎(buḥūr) or بِحار ‎(biḥār))
  1. sea
  2. beach

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic بَحْر (baḥr).

Noun

بحر (bahr)

  1. (geography) sea
    Synonyms: دكز, دریا

References

  • Redhouse, J. W. (1884), “sea”, in A Lexicon, English and Turkish, 3rd edition, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 667

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic بَحْر (baḥr).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bæhr/

Noun

Dari Persian بحر
Iranian Persian بحر
Tajiki Persian баҳр (bahr)

بحر (bahr)

  1. sea

Synonyms


Urdu

Etymology

From Persian بحر (bahr), from Arabic بَحْر (baḥr).

Noun

بحر (behr) m

  1. sea

Synonyms

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