دار

Derived from the active participle of the verb دَرَّ‎ (darra, “to flow copiously”), from the root د ر ر‎ (d-r-r).

دَارّ • (dārr) (feminine دَارَّة‎ (dārra), masculine plural دَارُّونَ‎ (dārrūna), feminine plural دَارَّات‎ (dārrāt))

1. flowing copiously
2. productive, rich, lucrative
3. profitable

From the root د و ر‎ (d-w-r).

IPA^(key): /daːr/

دَارَ • (dāra) I, non-past يَدُورُ‎‎ (yadūru)

1. to turn, to revolve, to rotate

   ‏تَدُورُ ٱلْأَرْضُ حَوْلَ ٱلشَّمْسِ.‎‎

   tadūru l-ʔarḍu ḥawla š-šamsi.

   The Earth revolves around the Sun.

2. to go around, to circulate
3. to go around, to move around

دَار • (dār) f (plural دُور‎ (dūr) or دِيَار‎ (diyār) or دِيَارَات‎ (diyārāt) or دِيَرَة‎ (diyara))

1. house
2. building, structure, edifice
3. land, country

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “دار”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 470–471
• Freytag, Georg (1833), “دار”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 69
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “دار”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 930
• Shapira, Dan D. Y. (2009), “Irano-Arabica: contamination and popular etymology. Notes on the Persian and Arabic lexicons (with references to Aramaic, Hebrew and Turkic)”, in Христианский Восток – Новая Серия, volume 5 (XI), Moscow: Издательство Российской Академии Наук и Государственного Эрмитажа, page 172, with the exaggerated claim of دَار (dār, “house”) being an Aramaic loan-word
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “دار”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 343–344

From Middle Persian dār[1], from Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎽𐎢𐎺 (d-a-ru-u-v /dāruv/), from Proto-Iranian *dā́ru. Cognate with Persian دار‎, Laki دار‎ (dar), Central Kurdish دار‎ (dar), Northern Kurdish dar, Tat dar, Talysh do, Mazanderani دار‎, Baluchi دار‎.

دار (daar)

1. tree

From Proto-Iranian *dā́ru, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dāru, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru.

دار • (dár)

1. wood
2. stick

From Proto-Iranian *dā́ru, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dāru, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru.

دار (dar)

1. tree
2. wood (substance, timber)
3. stick, staff, rod

From Proto-Iranian *dā́ru, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dāru, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru.

دار (dâr)

1. tree

• IPA^(key): /daːr/

From Arabic أَدَارَ‎ (ʔadāra, “to manage, to operate”).

دار • (dār) (form I, non-past يدير‎ (ydīr))

1. to do

   Synonym: عمل‎ (ʕmal)

From Arabic دَارَ‎ (dāra).

دار • (dār) (form I, non-past يدور‎ (ydūr))

1. to turn
2. to go around
3. to rotate

From Arabic دَار‎ (dār).

دار • (dār) f (plural ديور‎ (dyūr) or ديورة‎ (dyūra), diminutive دويرة‎ (dwīra))

1. house
2. family, folks

   ‏قلت للدار باللي ما جايش للمغرب هاد راس العام.‎‎

   qult l-ed-dār belli ma jāyši l-el-maḡrib hād rās el-ʕām

   I told my family I won't be coming to Morocco at the end of the year.

From Arabic دار‎ (dār, “house”).

• IPA^(key): /daːr/

دار • (dār) m

1. living-room

   ‏تفضل، قاعدين سوا بالدار.‎‎

   tfaḍḍal, ʾāʿdīn sawa bi-d-dār

   Come in, we’re all sitting in the living-room.

From Middle Persian [script needed] (dʾl, “tree, gallows; wood”), from Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎽𐎢𐎺 (d-a-ru-u-v /dāruv/), from Proto-Iranian *dā́ru, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dāru, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru.

دار • (dâr)

1. tree
2. gallows
3. wood

• دار زدن‎ (dâr zadan)
• دار و درخت‎ (dâr-o-deraxt)
• دارچین‎ (dârčin)

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “dār”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 24

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

دار • (dâr)

1. present stem of داشتن‎ (dâštan, “to have”)

ـدار • (-dâr)

1. a suffix indicating ownership in compound words

   ‎پول‎ (pul, “money”) + ‎ـدار → ‎پولدار‎ (puldâr, “rich”)

   ‎حساب‎ (hesâb, “account”) + ‎ـدار → ‎حسابدار‎ (hesâbdâr, “accountant”)

   ‎دل‎ (del, “heart”) + ‎ـدار → ‎دلدار‎ (deldâr, “beloved”)

   ‎سر‎ (sar, “head”) + ‎ـدار → ‎سردار‎ (sardâr, “military commander”)

   ‎شهر‎ (šahr, “city”) + ‎ـدار → ‎شهردار‎ (šahrdâr, “mayor”)

   ‎صندوق‎ (sanduq, “box”) + ‎ـدار → ‎صندوقدار‎ (sanduqdâr, “treasurer”)

   ‎کتاب‎ (ketâb, “book”) + ‎ـدار → ‎کتابدار‎ (ketâbdâr, “librarian”)

• → Azerbaijani: -dar
• → Chagatai: ـدار‎
  • Uyghur: ـدار‎ (-dar)
  • Uzbek: -dor
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: -दार (-dār)
  • Urdu: ـدار‎ (-dār)
• → Ottoman Turkish: ـدار‎
  • Turkish: -dar
• → Turkmen: -dar

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “دار”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “دار+dār”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

Borrowed from Arabic دَار‎ (dār).

دار • (dâr)

1. house
2. seat

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “دار”, in New Persian–English dictionary, volume 1, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim, page 780
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “دار”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

• IPA^(key): /daːr/, [dɑːr]

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From Arabic دَارَ‎ (dāra).

دار • (dār) (form I, present بدور‎ (bidūr), active participle داير‎ (dāyer))

1. (intransitive) to revolve, to turn
2. to roam, to travel around, to wander about

From Arabic أَدَارَ‎ (ʔadāra).

• أدار‎ (ʔadār)

دار • (dār) (form I, present بدير‎ (bidīr))

1. (transitive) to turn, to direct (toward)
2. to administer, to manage, to run
3. to pour out

   ‏ديرلي شاي!‎‎

   dīr-li šay

   Pour me out some tea!

• دار باله‎ (dār bālo, “to be careful”)

From Arabic دَار‎ (dār).

دار • (dār) f (plural دور‎ (dūr))

1. house, home

   Synonym: بيت‎ (bēt)

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑːɾ/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑːɾ/

Borrowed from Persian ـدار‎ (-dâr).

دار • (dār) (Hindi spelling -दार)

1. having, possessing, holding

Borrowed from Persian دار‎ (dâr).

دار • (transliteration needed) m (Hindi spelling दार)

1. wood
2. gallows

Borrowed from Arabic دَار‎ (dār).

دار • (transliteration needed) m (Hindi spelling दार)

1. house
2. seat

• “دار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “دار”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “دار”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.

دار (dār)

1. a sloping place on a mountain