کنار

See also: كنار‎

Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [script needed] (knʾl /kanār/, “side, edge”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /kanɑːɾ ~ kinɑːɾ/

(Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /kanɑːɾ ~ kɪnɑːɾ/

(Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /kænɒːɾ ~ kenɒːɾ/

(Tajik) IPA^(key): /kanɔɾ ~ kinɔɾ/

Noun

کِنار • (kenâr)

side
edge, limit, boundary
shore, coast
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, Reynold A. Nicholson, transl., مثنوی معنوی‎ [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume VI, verse 3881:
  ‏علم دریاییست بی‌حد و کنار / طالب علمست غواص بحار‎
  'elm daryâ-yi-st bi-hadd o kanâr / tâleb-e 'elm ast ğowvâs-e behâr
  Knowledge is an ocean without bound or shore: the seeker of knowledge is the diver in [those] seas.

Related terms

کناره‎ (kenâre)

Descendants

→ Bengali: কিনার (kinār)
→ Gujarati: કિનાર (kinār)
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: किनार (kinār)

Urdu: كنار‎ (kinār)
→ Kazakh: қанар (qanar)
- → Russian: кана́р (kanár)
→ Old Anatolian Turkish: كنار‎ (känar)
- Azerbaijani: kənar
- Ottoman Turkish: كنار‎ (kenar)
  - Turkish: kenar
  - → Arabic: كَنَار‎ (kanār, “a border in architecture”)
  - → Bulgarian: кена́р (kenár, “a kind of lace; border, end”)
  - → Macedonian: ќенар (ḱenar, “a kind of lace”)
  - → Romanian: chenar
  - → Serbo-Croatian: (“a kind of lace; border, end”)
    Cyrillic script: ћѐна̄р
    Latin script: ćènār
→ Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਕਿਨਾਰ (kinār)

Shahmukhi: كنار‎ (kinār)
→ Uzbek: qanor
- → Russian: кана́р (kanár)

Preposition

کِنارِ • (kenâr-e)

next to, besides
‏‎‎ (literary)
âyâ mi-tavânim kenâr-e panjere be-nešinim?
Can we sit next to the window?

‏‎‎ (colloquial)
mi-še kenâr-e panjere be-šinim?
Can we sit next to the window?

Adverb

کِنار • (kenâr)

aside

Etymology 2

From Middle Persian. Compare Classical Syriac ܟܢܪܐ‎ (kənārā), Old Armenian քնարուկ (kʿnaruk), Iranian borrowings. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

کنار • (konâr)

Ziziphus, especially of species Ziziphus spina-christi

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