शहर
Marathi
noun
Definitions
- city
- town
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian شهر (city, town) derived from Middle Persian 𐭱𐭲𐭥𐭩 (land, realm, country) derived from Old Persian 𐎧𐏁𐏂𐎶 (kingship).
Origin
Old Persian
𐎧𐏁𐏂𐎶
Gloss
kingship
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- शहर Hindi
- شهر Persian
- شهرزاد Persian
- شهری Persian
- шаһар Kazakh
- şəhər Azerbaijani
- شهر Ottoman Turkish
- চহৰ Assamese
- શહેર Gujarati
- *kšatrám Proto-Indo-Iranian
- শহর Bengali
- شەھەر Uighur, Uyghur
- 𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭𐭱𐭲𐭥𐭩 Middle Persian
- 𐭱𐭲𐭥𐭩 Middle Persian
- *xšaθram Proto-Iranian
- ਸ਼ਹਿਰ Panjabi, Punjabi
- shahar Uzbek
- şeer Crimean Tatar
- 𐎠𐎼𐎫𐎧𐏁𐏂𐎠 Old Persian
- 𐎧𐏁𐏂𐎶 Old Persian
- шаар Kirghiz, Kyrgyz
- शहर Bhojpuri
- ޝަހަރު Divehi, Dhivehi, Maldivian
- सहर Awadhi