آبشار

From Middle Persian 𐭠𐭡𐭱𐭠𐭥 (ābšār), equivalent to آب (âb, “water”) +‎ شار (šâr, “pour”), see شاریدن (šâridan) for the second part. Compare Northern Kurdish avşirr, daşirr (“toilet”).

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• Rhymes: -ɑːr

آبشار • (âbšâr) (plural آبشارها (âbšâr-hâ))

1. waterfall
   • c. 1670, Ṣāʾib-i Tabrīzī, “Ghazal 17”, in دیوان [Dīvān]‎^[1]:

     نگسلد فریاد مرغان چمن از یکدگر
     روز و شب از تردماغی چون صدای آبشار

     na-gusilad faryād-i murġān-i čaman az yakdigar
     rōz u šab az tardimāġī čūn sadā-yi ābšār

     The cries of the meadow nightingales do not separate from each other
     Out of mirth day and night, like the sound of the waterfall.

     (Classical Persian romanization)

• → Gujarati: આબશાર (ābaśār)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “آبشار”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Borrowed from Classical Persian آبْشَار (ābšār).

• IPA^(key): /aːb.ʂaː.ɾə/, [aːb.ʂaːɾ]

آبشارَ • (ābśāra) f (Devanagari आबशार)

1. waterfall; cascade

   Synonym: جھَرڻو (jharṇo)

• آبُ (ābu)

• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910), “آبشار”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, page 1
• Sindhi Language Authority (2025), “آبشار”, in Online Sindhi Dictionaries‎^[2]

Borrowed from Classical Persian آبشار (ābšār).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑːb.ʃɑːɾ/

آبشار • (ābśār) f (Hindi spelling आबशार)

1. waterfall
2. cascade