वर

Borrowed from Sanskrit वर (vara).

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /ʋəɾ/, [ʋɐɾ]

वर • (var) m

1. bridegroom

• Bahri, Hardev (1989), “वर”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons.
• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975), “वर”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. “Sea of Hindi words”] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “वर”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

Borrowed from Portuguese hora.

• IPA^(key): [ʋəɾ]

वर • (var) (Latin script vor, Kannada script ವರ್)

1. hour

   Synonym: तास (tās)

• Pushpak Bhattacharyya (2017), IndoWordNet‎^[1]

वरी (varī) (literary, less common)

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• IPA^(key): /ʋəɾ/

वर • (var)

1. up, upstairs
2. in addition

वर • (var)

1. on, above
2. at
3. up to, until
4. in addition

• खाली (khālī)

• Berntsen, Maxine (1982–1983), “वर”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies

वर

1. Devanagari script form of vara (“excellent”)

वर m or n

1. Devanagari script form of vara (“wish”)

वर

1. Devanagari script form of vara, which is second-person singular imperative active of वरति (varati, “to desire”)

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *warás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *warás, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁os (“chosen, wanted (person or thing)”). By surface analysis, वृ (vṛ, “to choose”) +‎ -अ (-a).

The adjective (in the sense of "high quality") and noun (in the sense of "gift") developed from the notion of "select", "chosen".

व॒र • (vará) stem (root वृ)

1. choosing

   पतिंवरा ― patiṃ-varā ― a woman who chooses her husband for herself

   स्वयंवरा ― svayaṃ-varā ― self-choice, the election of a husband by a princess or daughter of a kṣatriya at a public assembly of suitors

व॒र • (vará) stem, m

1. "chooser", one who solicits a girl in marriage, suitor, lover, bridegroom, husband (rarely "son-in-law")
   • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda
2. a bridegroom's friend
   • MW
3. a dissolute man

   Synonyms: वित (vita), षिड्ग (ṣiḍga)

   • Lexicographers, Various Works

वर॑ • (vára) stem (comparative वरीयस्, superlative वरिष्ठ)

1. "select", choicest, valuable, precious, best, most excellent or eminent among (genitive, locative, ablative, or compound) or for [with genitive]
   • ŚrS
   • c. 400 BCE, Mahābhārata
2. (at the end of a compound) royal, princely
   • Jātakam
3. better, preferable, better than [with ablative, rarely genitive] or among [with ablative]
   • c. 200 BCE – 200 CE, Manusmṛti
   • c. 400 BCE, Mahābhārata
4. eldest
   • W

वर॑ • (vára) stem, m

1. boon, gift, reward, benefit, blessing, favour
   • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda

   वराय (várāya), वरम् आ (váram ā́), प्रति वरम् (práti váram) or वरं वरम् (váraṃ varam) — according to wish, to one's heart's content

   मद्वरात् (mad-varāt) — in consequence of the boon granted by me

   váraṃ-√vṛ — to choose a boon

   varaṃ-√yāc or ā-√kāṅkṣ or √brū or causative of pra-√arth — to prefer a request

   váraṃ √dā, varam pra-√dā or pra-√yam — to grant a boon or blessing

   varaṃ-√labh — to receive a boon or reward

2. benefit, advantage, privilege
   • Daś
3. charity, alms
   • 550 CE, Varāhamihira, Bṛhat Saṃhitā
4. dowry
   • c. 300 BCE, Pañcatantra
5. a kind of grain
   • c. 300 BCE, Kātyāyana, Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra

   Synonym: वरत (varata)

6. bdellium
   • Lexicographers, Various Works
7. sparrow
   • Lexicographers, Various Works
8. name of a son of श्वफल्क (śvaphalka)
   • c. 400 BCE – 900 CE, Viṣṇu Purāṇa
9. saffron (in compounds not always separable from the homographic word meaning "enclosing, etc")
   • c. 700 CE – 900 CE, Bhāgavata Purāṇa

• Monier Williams (1899), “वर”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0922, column 1.

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *wáras, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wáras, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cover, envelop”). By surface analysis, वृ (vṛ, “to cover”) +‎ -अ (-a).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋɐ́.ɾɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ʋɐ.ɾɐ/

वर॑ • (vára) stem, m (root वृ)

1. environing, enclosing, circumference, space, room

   वर आ पृथिव्याः ― vára ā́ pṛthivyā́ḥ ― on the wide earth

   • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda
   • c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda
   • c. 1200 BCE – 800 BCE, Kṛṣṇa-Yajurveda (Taittirīya Saṃhitā)
2. stopping, checking
   • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda I.143.5

• → Old Javanese: awara (“screen”)

• Monier Williams (1899), “वर”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0921, column 1.