पुरा

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /pʊ.ɾɑː/, [pʊ.ɾäː]

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit पुरा (purā́).

पुरा • (purā) (Urdu spelling پُرا) (rare, formal)

1. from the old, formerly
2. till now

Inherited from Prakrit पुर (pura) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-), from Sanskrit पुर (pura), from Proto-Indo-European *(t)pĺ̥Hs. Doublet of पुर (pur).

पुरा • (purā) m (Urdu spelling پُرا)

1. large village, town
2. ward, quarter (of a town)

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975), “पुरा”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. “Sea of Hindi words”] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “पुरा”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *pr̥Hā́, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pr̥Hā́, from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₂-ó-h₁, from *preh₂-, from *per-.^[1]

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /pu.ɾɑ́ː/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /pu.ɾɑː/

पु॒रा • (purā́)

1. before, formerly, of old
2. in a previous existence
3. from of old, hitherto, up to the present time
4. at first, in the beginning

• पुरस् (purás)
• पुराण (purāṇá)
• पूर्व (pū́rva)

• Dardic:
  • Kashmiri: برُںہ (brũh)
• Pali: pure, purā
• Prakrit: 𑀧𑀼𑀭𑁄 (puro)
  • Southern:
    • Helu Prakrit:
      • Dhivehi: ފުރަ (fura), ޕޫރުބެ (pūrube), ޕުރެ (pure)
      • Sinhalese: පෙර (pera)
  • Western:
    • Takka Apabhramsa:
      • Punjabi:
        • Lahnda: پُرے (pure)
• → Hindi: पुरा (purā)

• Monier Williams (1899), “पुरा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 634, column 3.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “pura”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 469