آخر

See also: أخر‎, أحر‎, اجز‎, آجر‎, اجر‎, أجز‎, and أجر‎

Arabic

Etymology 1

Adjective and noun of the active participle form فَاعِل (fāʕil), from the root ء خ ر‎ (ʔ-ḵ-r).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔaː.xir/
  • (file)

Adjective

آخِر • (ʔāḵir) (feminine آخِرَة‎ (ʔāḵira), common plural أَوَاخِر‎ (ʔawāḵir), masculine plural آخِرُون‎ (ʔāḵirūn), feminine plural آخِرَات‎ (ʔāḵirāt))

  1. last, ultimate, utmost, extreme
Declension
See also

Noun

آخِر • (ʔāḵir) m (plural أَوَاخِر‎ (ʔawāḵir))

  1. end, conclusion
  2. bottom, foot
Declension
Descendants
  • → Armenian: ախր (axr)
  • Maltese: ieħor
  • Moroccan Arabic: آخر‎ (ʔāḵur)
  • → Afar: aakír, aakér
  • → Azerbaijani: axır
  • → Bengali: আখের (akher)
  • → Malay: akhir
  • → Ottoman Turkish: آخر‎
  • → Persian: آخر‎
  • → Urdu: آخِر‎

Etymology 2

Elative adjective of the form أَفْعَل (ʔafʕal), from the root ء خ ر‎ (ʔ-ḵ-r). The sequence *ʔaʔ in *أَأْخَر (*ʔaʔḵar) and *أَأْخَرُون (*ʔaʔḵarūn) changed to ʾā by compensatory lengthening.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔaː.xar/

Adjective

آخَر • (ʔāḵar) (feminine أُخْرَى‎ (ʔuḵrā), masculine plural آخَرُون‎ (ʔāḵarūn), feminine plural أُخَر‎ (ʔuḵar) or أُخْرَيَات‎ (ʔuḵrayāt))

  1. another, one more, other
Declension
Derived terms
  • لَا تَزِرُ وَازِرَةٌ وِزْرَ أُخْرَى‎ (lā taziru wāziratun wizra ʔuḵrā, proverb)

Khalaj

Noun

آخِر (âxır) (definite accusative آخِرؽ‎, plural آخِرلار‎)

  1. Arabic spelling of âxır (“end”)

Declension

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

Root
و خ ر‎
2 terms

From Arabic آخَر‎ (ʔāḵar).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔaː.xur/
  • (file)

Adjective

آخر • (ʔāḵur) (feminine أخرى‎ (ʔuḵra), masculine plural آخرين‎ (ʔāḵrīn) or أخرين‎ (ʔuḵrīn), feminine plural أخرات‎ (ʔuḵrāt))

  1. another, one more, other

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic آخَر‎ (ʔāḵar).

Adjective

آخر • (âher)

  1. another
  2. other

Etymology 2

From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (āχır), from Arabic آخِر‎ (ʔāḵir).

Adjective

آخر • (âhir)

  1. last

Adverb

آخر • (âhir)

  1. at last
  2. finally

Noun

آخر • (âhir)

  1. end, conclusion
Declension
Derived terms
  • آخر اولمق‎ (âhir olmak)
  • آخر ایتمك‎ (âhir etmek)
Descendants

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic آخِر‎ (ʔāḵir).

Pronunciation

  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /ɔˈxiɾ/

  • (file)

Adjective

Dari آخر
Iranian Persian
Tajik охир (oxir)

آخر • (âxar)

  1. last

Inflection

    Predicative forms of آخر (âxar)
singular plural
1st person
(“I am, we are”)
آخرم‎
(âxaram)
آخریم‎
(âxarim)
2nd person
(“you are”)
آخری‎
(âxari)
آخرید‎
(âxarid)
آخرین‎ △
(âxarin)
3rd person
(“he/she/it is, they are”)
آخر است‎
(âxar ast)
آخره‎ △
(âxare)
آخرند‎
(âxarand)
آخرن‎ △
(âxaran)
△ Colloquial.

Adverb

آخر • (âxar)

  1. at last
  2. finally

Noun

آخر • (âxar)

  1. end
    • 1967, Samad Behrangi, ماهی سیاه کوچولو [The Little Black Fish]:
      ‏می‌خواهم بروم ببینم آخرِ جویبار کجاست.‎‎
      mi-xâham be-ravam be-binam âxar-e juybâr kojâ-st.
      I want to go and see where the end of the stream is.
  • آخرین‎ (âxarin)
  • آخر هفته‎ (âxer-e hafte)

Descendants

  • → Khalaj: âxır
  • → Punjabi:
  • *: Gurmukhi script: ਆਖਰ (ākhar)
    Shahmukhi script: آخر‎ (āxar)

South Levantine Arabic

Root
ء خ ر‎

Etymology

From Arabic آخِر‎ (ʔāḵir).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔaː.xir/, [ʔæː.xɪr], [ʔaː.xɪr]
  • (file)

Noun

آخر • (ʔāḵer) m

  1. end
    Synonym: نهاية‎ (nihāye)
    Antonyms: أوّل‎ (ʔawwal), بداية‎ (bidāye)
    ‏آخر الأسبوع‎‎ ― ʔāḵer il-ʔusbūʕ ― the weekend
    (file)

Adjective

آخر • (ʔāḵer)

  1. last, final
    Antonym: أوّل‎ (ʔawwal)
    ‏هاي آخر مرّة بستنّاك.‎‎
    hāy ʔāḵer marra bastannāk
    This is the last time I'm waiting for you.
    (file)
  2. last, most recent
    Synonym: أخير‎ (ʔaḵīr)
    ‏مش عارف إيمتى آخر مرّة سمعت هالجملة.‎‎
    miš ʕāref ʔēmta ʔāḵer marra smeʕt hal-jumle
    I don't know when the last time I heard that sentence was.
    (file)

Usage notes

  • آخر‎ (ʔāḵer) is used like an elative, preceding the noun it modifies without taking the definite article.

Derived terms

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic آخِر‎ (ʔāḵir).

Adverb

آخر • (āxir) (Hindi spelling आख़िर)

  1. after all
  2. at last

Noun

آخر • (āxir) m (Hindi spelling आख़िर)

  1. end
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