سندر

Arabic

Etymology

Apparently from Ancient Greek σημύδα (sēmúda), a hapax attested in Θεόφραστος often glossed as birch. Perhaps borrowed into Arabic from a manuscript variant or elsewhere with a suffix such as a *σημυδάριον (*sēmudárion) with -άριον (-árion), or this ending is derived from popularity in Arabic, as in the example of سَفَنْدَر (safandar, “box holly (Ruscus gen. et spp.)”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /san.dar/

Noun

سَنْدَر • (sandar) m

  1. birch (Betula gen. et spp.)
    Synonyms: شَجَر الْقُضْبَان (šajar al-quḍbān), بَتُولَا (batūlā)

Declension

Declension of noun سَنْدَر (sandar)
singular basic singular triptote
indefinite definite construct
informal سَنْدَر
sandar 		السَّنْدَر
as-sandar 		سَنْدَر
sandar
nominative سَنْدَرٌ
sandarun 		السَّنْدَرُ
as-sandaru 		سَنْدَرُ
sandaru
accusative سَنْدَرًا
sandaran 		السَّنْدَرَ
as-sandara 		سَنْدَرَ
sandara
genitive سَنْدَرٍ
sandarin 		السَّنْدَرِ
as-sandari 		سَنْدَرِ
sandari

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit सुन्दर (sundara). First attested in c. 1611 as Middle Hindi سندر (sndr /⁠sundar⁠/).[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /sʊn.d̪əɾ/
  • Rhymes: -əɾ
  • Hyphenation: سُن‧دَر

Adjective

سُنْدَر • (sundar) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling सुंदर)

  1. beautiful
    Synonym: خُوبْصُورَت (xūbsūrat)
  2. handsome
  3. graceful

References

  1. ^ “سندر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
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