اثر

From Arabic أَثَر‎ (ʔaṯar).

اثر • (eser) (plural آثار‎ (asar))

1. work (literary, artistic, or intellectual production)

   ‏شاه اثر‎ ― şah esir ― masterpiece

• Turkish: eser

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “اثر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 50

From Arabic أَثَر‎ (ʔaṯar).

اثر • (asar) (plural آثار‎ (âsâr) or اثرها‎ (asar-hâ) or آثارات‎ (âsârât))

1. trace, sign, mark
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, Reynold A. Nicholson, transl., مثنوی معنوی‎ [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 1803:

     ‏این زمین از حلم حق دارد اثر / تا نجاست برد و گلها داد بر‎

     in zamin az helm-e haqq dârad asar / tâ nejâsat bord o gol-hâ dâd bar

     This earth has the mark of God's clemency, in that it got filth and gave flowers as the produce.

2. effect, impact
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, Reynold A. Nicholson, transl., مثنوی معنوی‎ [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume III, verse 2874:

     ‏جفت کردیم این عمل را با اثر / چون رسد جفتی رسد جفتی دگر‎

     joft kardim in 'amal-râ bâ asar / čon rasad joft-i rasad joft-i degar

     We have mated this action with the effect: when one mate arrives, another mate arrives.

3. impression
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, Reynold A. Nicholson, transl., مثنوی معنوی‎ [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume III, verse 3587:

     ‏عقل اثر را روح پندارد ولیک / نور خور از قرص خور دورست نیک‎

     'aql asar-râ ruh pendârad va-lik / nur-e xor az qors-e xor dur-ast nik

     The intellect deems the impression to be the Spirit, but the light of the sun is very far from (being) the orb of the sun.

4. (in the plural آثار‎) relic, historical monument
5. (usually in the plural) literary work

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(others)

• → Hindustani: asar

  Hindi: असर

  Urdu: اثر‎

Borrowed from Classical Persian اثر‎ (asar), from Arabic أَثَر‎ (ʔaṯar).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ə.səɾ/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /ə.səɾ/
• Rhymes: -əɾ
• Homophone: عَصْر‎ ('asr) (sukoon-zabar in Perso-Arab loanwords)

اَثَر • (as̱ar) m (plural اثرات‎, Hindi spelling असर)

1. result, consequence, impact
2. effect
3. influence
4. impress, impression

• “اثر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “اثر”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.

From Urdu اثر‎ (asar), from Persian اثر‎ (asar), from Arabic أَثَر‎ (ʔaṯar).

اثر (asr)

1. effect
2. result
3. impression
4. influence