دور

From the root د و ر‎ (d-w-r).

دَوَّرَ • (dawwara) II, non-past يُدَوِّرُ‎‎ (yudawwiru)

1. (transitive) to turn in a circle, to spin, to whirl, to revolve, to rotate
2. (transitive) to turn into a circle, to make round

• Wehr, Hans (1979), “دور”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 344

دَوْر • (dawr) m (plural أَدْوَار‎ (ʔadwār))

1. verbal noun of دَارَ‎ (dāra) (form I)
2. role
3. turn
4. rotation
5. circle, cycle
6. vicissitude
7. age, period, epoch
8. roundabout way
9. fit of fever
10. floor, story
11. the world

• → Azerbaijani: dövr
• → Bashkir: дәүер (däwer)
• → Chagatai: دور‎
  • Uyghur: دەۋر‎ (dewr)
  • Uzbek: davr
• → Crimean Tatar: devir
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: दौर (daur)
  • Urdu: دور‎ (daur)
• → Kazakh: дәуір (däuır)
• → Kyrgyz: доор (door)
• → Ottoman Turkish: دور‎ (devr)
  • Turkish: devir
  • → Romanian: dever
• → Persian: دور‎ (dowr)
• → Spanish: ador
• → Turkmen: döwür

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “دور”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

• Rhymes: -uːr

دُور • (dūr) f pl

1. plural of دَار‎ (dār)

دور

1. Arabic spelling of dur

دور • (dawr) m, pl أدوار‎ (ʔadwār)

1. floor (“storey”)

Borrowed from Arabic دَوْر‎ (dawr).

دور • (devr)

1. a revolution, circuit, rotation
2. a circumference or periphery
3. a turn, twist, whorl
4. a mode of turning or revolving
5. a turn or circuit of duty or of action, a period of revolution of a heavenly body
6. a vicious circle of reasoning
7. a cycle, a period of time

• Turkish: devir
• → Romanian: dever

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 919

Contraction of دورور‎ (durur, “it stands”).

دور • (dur)

1. (old or provincial by the 19th century) Alternative spelling of در‎ (dur, “it is”)

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 892
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 919

Borrowed from Persian دور‎ (dur).

دور • (dur)

1. far, far off, distant

   Synonym: اوزاق‎ (uzak)

2. absent
3. improbable, incredible

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 919

Borrowed from Arabic دُور‎ (dūr), plural of دَار‎ (dār).

دور • (dur)

1. houses
2. countries, regions

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 919

From Proto-Iranian *duHráh (“far”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *duHrás (“far”), from Proto-Indo-European *duh₂-ró-s (“long, far”), from *dweh₂-. Cognate with Central Kurdish دوور‎ (dûr, “far, distant”), Pashto لرې‎ (lëre, “distant”), Sanskrit दूर (dūra, “distant, remote”), Avestan 𐬛𐬏𐬭𐬁𐬝‎ (dūrāt̰, “from afar”), Ancient Greek δηρός (dērós, “long”), Latin dūrus, Old Armenian երկար (erkar, “long, extended”).

دور • (dur)

1. far
2. distant

دور • (dur)

1. away

• دوراندیش‎ (dur-andiš)
• دوربین‎ (dur-bin)
• دورگو‎ (dur-gu)
• دورنما‎ (dur-nomâ)
• دورنویس‎ (dur-nevis)
• دوری‎ (duri)

• → Azerbaijani: dur
• → Ottoman Turkish: دور‎ (dur)

From Arabic دَوْر‎ (dawr).

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

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /dawɾ/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /dowɾ/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /davɾ/

دور • (dowr) (plural ادوار‎ (advâr))

1. turn
2. cycle
3. circumference
4. period, era, time, age
5. revolution

• دوره‎ (dowre)
• دوری‎ (dowri)

From Arabic دَوَّرَ‎ (dawwara).

• IPA^(key): /daw.war/, [ˈdaw.war]

• Audio (al-Lidd)

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دوّر • (dawwar) (form II, present بدوّر‎ (bidawwer))

1. to search, to look for

   ‏دوّرت عليه بس ما لقيتوش‎‎

   dawwart alē bass mā laʔētoš

   I looked for him but I didn't find him.

From Arabic دَوْر‎ (dawr).

• IPA^(key): /doːr/, [doːr]

• Audio (Ramallah)

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دور • (dōr) m (plural أدوار‎ (ʔadwār))

1. queue, line
2. role, part
3. time, turn, instance
4. (education) course

From Sanskrit द्वार (dvāra).

• IPA^(key): /duːr/

دوّر (dūr)

1. door

From Sanskrit धौरेय (dhaureya, “foremost”).

• IPA^(key): /doːr/

دور (dōr)

1. (anatomy) face

• Abd-El-Malek Lamuwal; Adam Baker (2013), “Southeastern Pashayi”, in Journal of the International Phonetic Association, volume 43, Cambridge: International Phonetic Association, pages 243-246

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀤𑀽𑀭 (dūra), from Sanskrit दूर (dūrá). Also influenced by Persian دور‎ (dur).

دور • (dūr) (Hindi spelling दूर)

1. distant, remote

دور • (dūr) (Hindi spelling दूर)

1. far, far off

From Arabic دَوْر‎ (dawr).

دور • (daur) m (Hindi spelling दौर)

1. period, era, age
2. stage, round, period

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “दूर”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press