گھر

Inherited from Old Gujarati घर (ghara), from Sanskrit गृह (gṛha).

گھر • (ghar) m (Standard Gujarati ઘર) (Lisan ud-Dawat)

1. house, home

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀖𑀭 (ghara), from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀕𑀭𑁆𑀳 (*garha), from a metathesized form of Sanskrit गृह (gṛhá). Compare Northern Hindko کَہار‎ (kahār). Far cognate with Persian کرت‎ (kart) and English garth / yard, Scottish Gaelic gàrradh (“garden; wall”) and Irish garraí (“garden; small enclosure; halo”), among others. Doublet of گَڑھ‎ (gaṛh).

• (Standard Punjabi, India) Phonetic: kàră IPA^(key): /kə˨ɾə̆/
• (Pakistan) Phonetic: kā̀ră IPA^(key): /käː˨ɾə̆/ (singular)

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• Homophone: کَر‎ (kar) (level tone)

گَھر • (ghar) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਘਰ)

1. house, home
   • 2006, غلام حسین ساجد – G̲h̲ulām Ḥusain Sājid, نیندر بھنی رات – Nīndar bhinnī rāt, Lahore: سانجھ – Sānjh, →ISBN, page 69:

     ‏تے اوہ کِسے وی قیمت تے کِسے نوں اپنے گھر واڑن لئی راضی نہیں سی ہُوئی۔‎‎

     te oh kise vī qīmat te kise nūṉ apṇe ghar vāṛaṇ la'ī rāẓī nahīṉ sī hū'ī.

     And she wasn't prepared to let anyone inside her house, at any cost.

2. (by extension) household
   • 2000, راوی – rāvī, volume 87, Lahore: Government College, →OCLC:

     ‏جے غریب ماں پے بالاں دی وجہ توں گھر دی آمدن ودھا لیندے نیں تے ایہدے وچ حرج ای کیہ اے۔‎‎

     je ġarīb māṉ pe bālāṉ dī vajah toṉ ghar dī āmadan vadhā lainde neṉ te aehde vicc ḥaraj ī kīh ae.

     What bother is it if [some] poor parents decide to increase the household income because of their children.

3. (in compounds) building, place

   ‏گَھنٹا گَھر‎‎ ― ghanṭā ghar ― clock tower (literally, “clock house”)

• “گھر‎”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2023
• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “گھر‎”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “ghara”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 239

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀖𑀭 (ghara), from a metathesized form of Sanskrit गृह (gṛha).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɡʱəɾ/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /ɡʱəɾ/
• Rhymes: -əɾ

گَھر • (ghar) m (Hindi spelling घर)

1. (chiefly) house, home

   Synonym: مکان‎ (makān)

2. place, abode

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