بحر

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

• IPA^(key): /baħr/

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

1. verbal noun of بَحَرَ (baḥara) (form I)
2. sea

   Coordinate terms: بَرّ‎ (barr), جَوّ‎ (jaww)

3. large river
4. a noble or great man (possessed of a sea of knowledge, experience and wisdom)
5. (poetry) poetic meter

• مِنَ النَّهْرِ إلَى الْبَحْرِ‎ (mina n-nahri ʔilā l-baḥri)

• Gulf Arabic: بَحَر‎ (bəḥər)
• Maltese: baħar
• Moroccan Arabic: بحر‎ (bḥar)
• → Azerbaijani: bəhr
• → Bengali: বহর (bohor)
• → Lishana Deni: בחר‎ (baḥḥaṛ)
• → Ottoman Turkish: بحر‎ (baḥr)
  • Turkish: bahir
• → Swahili: bahari
  • → Malagasy: bahary
• → Uzbek: bahr
• → Zaghawa: bahar

Denominal verb from بَحْر‎ (baḥr, “sea”).

• IPA^(key): /baħ.ħa.ra/

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

1. to travel by sea, to make a voyage

• IPA^(key): /ba.ħi.ra/

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

1. to be startled, to be bewildered with fright

• IPA^(key): /ba.ħa.ra/

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ba.ħar/

بَحَر • (baḥar) m

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

• 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 C^ie, 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

From Arabic بَحْر‎ (baḥr).

• IPA^(key): /baħar/

بحر • (baḥar) m (plural بحور‎ (buḥūr) or بحار‎ (biḥār))

1. sea
2. beach

From Arabic بَحْر‎ (baḥr).

• IPA^(key): /bħar/

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بحر • (bḥar) m (plural بحور‎ (bḥūr) or بحار‎ (bḥār))

1. sea
2. beach

From Arabic بَحْر‎ (baḥr).

بحر • (bahr)

1. (geography) sea

   Synonyms: دكز‎, دریا‎

• بحر سیاه‎ (Bahr-i Siyah, “Black Sea”)

• Turkish: bahir

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

بحر • (bahr) m

1. sea
2. (Poetry) meter, rhythm

From Arabic بَحْر‎ (baḥr).

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /bahɾ/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /bahɾ/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /bæhɾ/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /bahɾ/

بحر • (bahr)

1. (Dari) sea

   Synonym: دَریا‎ (daryâ)

From Arabic بَحْر‎ (baḥr).

• IPA^(key): /ba.ħar/, [ˈbɑ.ħɑrˤ]

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بحر • (baḥar) m (plural أبحار‎ (ʔabḥār) or بحار‎ (bḥār) or بحور‎ (bḥūr))

1. sea

• البحر الميت‎ (il-baḥr il-mayyet, “Dead Sea”)
• البحر الأحمر‎ (il-baḥr il-ʔaḥmar, “Red Sea”)
• البحر الأبيض المتوسط‎ (il-baḥr il-ʔabyaḍ il-mutawasseṭ, “Mediterranean Sea”)

• بحيرة‎ (buḥayra, “lake”)
• محيط‎ (muḥīṭ, “ocean”)

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

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bəɦɾ/

• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /bəɦɾ/

بحر • (bahr) m (plural بحار‎, Hindi spelling बहर)

1. (geography) ocean

   ‏بحرِ ہند‎ ― bahr-e-hind ― Indian Ocean

2. sea
3. meter

• (sea): سمندر‎ (samandar), بحیرہ‎ (bahīrā), ساگر‎ (sāgar)