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Noun [Persian]

Forms: gabr [romanization], گپر [alternative]
Etymology: From Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“weave”). Etymology templates: {{der|fa|ine-pro|*webʰ-|t=weave}} Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“weave”) Head templates: {{fa-noun|tr=gabr}} گبر • (gabr)
  1. hauberk
    Sense id: en-گبر-fa-noun-ahRSuCWU Categories (other): Armor, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Persian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 50 16 17 16 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 74 9 9 9 Disambiguation of Persian entries with incorrect language header: 71 9 13 7
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [Persian]

IPA: /ˈɡabr/ [Classical-Persian], [ɡäbɾ] [Dari, formal], [ɡäbɾ] [Dari, formal], [ɡäbɾ] [Kabuli], [ɡäbɾ] (note: Hazaragi), [ɡʲæbɹ] [Iran, formal], [ɡäbɾ] [Tajik, formal] Forms: gabr [romanization], گبرها [plural], габр [Cyrillic, Tajik], گور [alternative, archaic], گاور [alternative, archaic]
Rhymes: -abr Etymology: Borrowed from Aramaic 𐡂𐡁𐡓𐡀 (gbrʾ /⁠gaḇrā⁠/, “man; person”), reflected in the Middle Persian logogram (huzvarishn) GBRA (mard, “man”). The Persian word was probably used in pre-Islamic Persia to refer to some Zoroastrians in Mesopotamia (inhabited by many Aramaeans). Traditionally has been derived from Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “unbeliever”), but that is problematic on phonetic and semantic grounds. See Shaki in Encyclopædia Iranica for more. Etymology templates: {{bor+|fa|arc|𐡂𐡁𐡓𐡀|t=man; person|tr=gbrʾ|ts=gaḇrā}} Borrowed from Aramaic 𐡂𐡁𐡓𐡀 (gbrʾ /⁠gaḇrā⁠/, “man; person”), {{inh|fa|pal|-}} Middle Persian, {{cog|ar|كَافِر|t=unbeliever}} Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “unbeliever”) Head templates: {{fa-noun|cls=گَبْر|pl=گبرها|pl2=گبران}} گبر • (gabr) (plural گبرها (gabr-hā / gabr-hâ), or گبران (gabrān / gabrân), Tajik spelling габр)
  1. (archaic, later derogatory, religious slur) Zoroastrian Tags: archaic, slur
    Sense id: en-گبر-fa-noun-8s9ABx~d Categories (other): Persian religious slurs
  2. (archaic, religious slur) kafir, infidel Tags: archaic, slur
    Sense id: en-گبر-fa-noun-LsgmFA4V Categories (other): Persian religious slurs
  3. (colloquial) wealthy man Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-گبر-fa-noun-O1FkIRmE
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: گبری (gabri), گبرک (gabrak), گبرکی (gabraki)
Etymology number: 2

Alternative forms

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    [
      "*webʰ-",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/webʰ-"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_number": "1",
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*webʰ-",
        "t": "weave"
      },
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      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“weave”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gabr",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "گپر",
      "roman": "gapr",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "tr": "gabr"
      },
      "expansion": "گبر • (gabr)",
      "name": "fa-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Persian",
  "lang_code": "fa",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "fa",
          "name": "Armor",
          "orig": "fa:Armor",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 16 17 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "74 9 9 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "71 9 13 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Persian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hauberk"
      ],
      "id": "en-گبر-fa-noun-ahRSuCWU",
      "links": [
        [
          "hauberk",
          "hauberk"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "گبر"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "gabri",
      "word": "گبری"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "gabrak",
      "word": "گبرک"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "gabraki",
      "word": "گبرکی"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "lang_code": "az",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "lang_code": "tr",
          "word": "gebr"
        },
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "English",
              "lang_code": "en",
              "raw_tags": [
                "borrowed"
              ],
              "word": "Guebre"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "French",
          "lang_code": "fr",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "guèbre"
        },
        {
          "lang": "German",
          "lang_code": "de",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "Geber"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Italian",
          "lang_code": "it",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "guebro"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "lang_code": "ota",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
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      "word": "گبر"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "lang_code": "uz",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "gabr"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "lang_code": "uz",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "gavir"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "lang_code": "az",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "gavur"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "lang_code": "tr",
          "word": "gâvur"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Albanian",
          "lang_code": "sq",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "kaur"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "lang_code": "hy",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "roman": "gyavur",
          "word": "գյավուր"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "lang_code": "bg",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "roman": "gjaúr",
          "word": "гяу́р"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "lang_code": "bg",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "roman": "gjaúrin",
          "word": "гяу́рин"
        },
        {
          "lang": "English",
          "lang_code": "en",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "giaour"
        },
        {
          "lang": "French",
          "lang_code": "fr",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "giaour"
        },
        {
          "lang": "French",
          "lang_code": "fr",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "ghiaour"
        },
        {
          "lang": "German",
          "lang_code": "de",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "Giaur"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "lang_code": "mk",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "roman": "ǵaur",
          "word": "ѓаур"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "lang_code": "ro",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "ghiaur"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "lang_code": "hu",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "gyaur"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Italian",
          "lang_code": "it",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "giaurro"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Polish",
          "lang_code": "pl",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "giaur"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Russian",
          "lang_code": "ru",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "roman": "gjaúr",
          "word": "гяу́р"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "lang_code": "sh",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "ђаур"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "lang_code": "sh",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "đaur"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "lang_code": "sh",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "каур"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "lang_code": "sh",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "kaur"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "lang_code": "ota",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "gâvur",
      "word": "كاور"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Turkmen",
      "lang_code": "tk",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "gäwür"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "𐡂𐡁𐡓𐡀",
      "𐡂𐡁𐡓𐡀#Aramaic"
    ],
    [
      "GBRA",
      "GBRA#Middle_Persian"
    ],
    [
      "Mesopotamia",
      "Mesopotamia"
    ],
    [
      "كَافِر",
      "كافر#Arabic"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_number": "2",
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "arc",
        "3": "𐡂𐡁𐡓𐡀",
        "t": "man; person",
        "tr": "gbrʾ",
        "ts": "gaḇrā"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Aramaic 𐡂𐡁𐡓𐡀 (gbrʾ /⁠gaḇrā⁠/, “man; person”)",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "pal",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Persian",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ar",
        "2": "كَافِر",
        "t": "unbeliever"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “unbeliever”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Aramaic 𐡂𐡁𐡓𐡀 (gbrʾ /⁠gaḇrā⁠/, “man; person”), reflected in the Middle Persian logogram (huzvarishn) GBRA (mard, “man”). The Persian word was probably used in pre-Islamic Persia to refer to some Zoroastrians in Mesopotamia (inhabited by many Aramaeans).\nTraditionally has been derived from Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “unbeliever”), but that is problematic on phonetic and semantic grounds.\nSee Shaki in Encyclopædia Iranica for more.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gabr",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "گبرها",
      "roman": "gabr-hā / gabr-hâ",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "габр",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "Tajik"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "گور",
      "roman": "gawr /gowr",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "archaic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "گاور",
      "roman": "gāwur, gāwar /gâvor, gâvar",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "cls": "گَبْر",
        "pl": "گبرها",
        "pl2": "گبران"
      },
      "expansion": "گبر • (gabr) (plural گبرها (gabr-hā / gabr-hâ), or گبران (gabrān / gabrân), Tajik spelling габр)",
      "name": "fa-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Persian",
  "lang_code": "fa",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Persian religious slurs",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Zoroastrian"
      ],
      "id": "en-گبر-fa-noun-8s9ABx~d",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "religious",
          "religious"
        ],
        [
          "slur",
          "slur"
        ],
        [
          "Zoroastrian",
          "Zoroastrian"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "later derogatory",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, later derogatory, religious slur) Zoroastrian"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "slur"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Persian religious slurs",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Literal translation:\nReturn, return! Whatever thou art, return!\nWhether kafir, infidel, or idolater, return!\nThis threshold of ours is not a threshold of despair.\n[Even] if you've broken your repentance a hundred times, return!",
          "ref": "Attributed to both Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr (967–1049) and Rumi (1207–1273)",
          "roman": "sad bār agar tawba šikastī, bāz-ā!",
          "text": "باز آ باز آ هر آنچه هستی باز آ\nگر کافر و گبر و بتپرستی باز آ\nاین درگه ما درگه نومیدی نیست\nصد بار اگر توبه شکستی باز آ\nbāz-ā! bāz-ā! har ānči hastī bāz-ā!\ngar kāfir u gabr u but-parastī bāz-ā!\nīn dargah-i mā dargah-i nōmēdī nēst",
          "translation": "Literal translation:\nReturn, return! Whatever thou art, return!\nWhether kafir, infidel, or idolater, return!\nThis threshold of ours is not a threshold of despair.\n[Even] if you've broken your repentance a hundred times, return!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "kafir, infidel"
      ],
      "id": "en-گبر-fa-noun-LsgmFA4V",
      "links": [
        [
          "religious",
          "religious"
        ],
        [
          "slur",
          "slur"
        ],
        [
          "kafir",
          "kafir"
        ],
        [
          "infidel",
          "infidel"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, religious slur) kafir, infidel"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "slur"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "wealthy man"
      ],
      "id": "en-گبر-fa-noun-O1FkIRmE",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) wealthy man"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡabr/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Persian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɡäbɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɡäbɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɡäbɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Kabuli"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɡäbɾ]",
      "note": "Hazaragi"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɡʲæbɹ]",
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɡäbɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Tajik",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-abr"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "huzvarishn"
  ],
  "word": "گبر"
}
{
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    "Pages with entries",
    "Persian entries with incorrect language header",
    "Persian lemmas",
    "Persian nouns",
    "Persian terms borrowed from Aramaic",
    "Persian terms derived from Aramaic",
    "Persian terms derived from Middle Persian",
    "Persian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Persian terms inherited from Middle Persian",
    "Persian terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Rhymes:Persian/abr",
    "Rhymes:Persian/abr/1 syllable"
  ],
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "*webʰ-",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/webʰ-"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_number": "1",
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      "args": {
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      },
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      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“weave”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gabr",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "گپر",
      "roman": "gapr",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "tr": "gabr"
      },
      "expansion": "گبر • (gabr)",
      "name": "fa-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Persian",
  "lang_code": "fa",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "fa:Armor"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hauberk"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hauberk",
          "hauberk"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "گبر"
}

{
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    "Pages with entries",
    "Persian entries with incorrect language header",
    "Persian lemmas",
    "Persian nouns",
    "Persian terms borrowed from Aramaic",
    "Persian terms derived from Aramaic",
    "Persian terms derived from Middle Persian",
    "Persian terms inherited from Middle Persian",
    "Persian terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Rhymes:Persian/abr",
    "Rhymes:Persian/abr/1 syllable"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "gabri",
      "word": "گبری"
    },
    {
      "roman": "gabrak",
      "word": "گبرک"
    },
    {
      "roman": "gabraki",
      "word": "گبرکی"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "lang_code": "az",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "gəbr"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "lang_code": "tr",
          "word": "gebr"
        },
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "English",
              "lang_code": "en",
              "raw_tags": [
                "borrowed"
              ],
              "word": "Guebre"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "French",
          "lang_code": "fr",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "guèbre"
        },
        {
          "lang": "German",
          "lang_code": "de",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "Geber"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Italian",
          "lang_code": "it",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "guebro"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "lang_code": "ota",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "gebr",
      "word": "گبر"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "lang_code": "uz",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "gabr"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "lang_code": "uz",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "gavir"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "lang_code": "az",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "gavur"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "lang_code": "tr",
          "word": "gâvur"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Albanian",
          "lang_code": "sq",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "kaur"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "lang_code": "hy",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "roman": "gyavur",
          "word": "գյավուր"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "lang_code": "bg",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "roman": "gjaúr",
          "word": "гяу́р"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "lang_code": "bg",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "roman": "gjaúrin",
          "word": "гяу́рин"
        },
        {
          "lang": "English",
          "lang_code": "en",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "giaour"
        },
        {
          "lang": "French",
          "lang_code": "fr",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "giaour"
        },
        {
          "lang": "French",
          "lang_code": "fr",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "ghiaour"
        },
        {
          "lang": "German",
          "lang_code": "de",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "Giaur"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "lang_code": "mk",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "roman": "ǵaur",
          "word": "ѓаур"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "lang_code": "ro",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "ghiaur"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "lang_code": "hu",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "gyaur"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Italian",
          "lang_code": "it",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "giaurro"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Polish",
          "lang_code": "pl",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "giaur"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Russian",
          "lang_code": "ru",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "roman": "gjaúr",
          "word": "гяу́р"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "lang_code": "sh",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "ђаур"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "lang_code": "sh",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "đaur"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "lang_code": "sh",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "каур"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "lang_code": "sh",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "kaur"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "lang_code": "ota",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "gâvur",
      "word": "كاور"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Turkmen",
      "lang_code": "tk",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "gäwür"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "𐡂𐡁𐡓𐡀",
      "𐡂𐡁𐡓𐡀#Aramaic"
    ],
    [
      "GBRA",
      "GBRA#Middle_Persian"
    ],
    [
      "Mesopotamia",
      "Mesopotamia"
    ],
    [
      "كَافِر",
      "كافر#Arabic"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_number": "2",
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "arc",
        "3": "𐡂𐡁𐡓𐡀",
        "t": "man; person",
        "tr": "gbrʾ",
        "ts": "gaḇrā"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Aramaic 𐡂𐡁𐡓𐡀 (gbrʾ /⁠gaḇrā⁠/, “man; person”)",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "pal",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Persian",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ar",
        "2": "كَافِر",
        "t": "unbeliever"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “unbeliever”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Aramaic 𐡂𐡁𐡓𐡀 (gbrʾ /⁠gaḇrā⁠/, “man; person”), reflected in the Middle Persian logogram (huzvarishn) GBRA (mard, “man”). The Persian word was probably used in pre-Islamic Persia to refer to some Zoroastrians in Mesopotamia (inhabited by many Aramaeans).\nTraditionally has been derived from Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “unbeliever”), but that is problematic on phonetic and semantic grounds.\nSee Shaki in Encyclopædia Iranica for more.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gabr",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "گبرها",
      "roman": "gabr-hā / gabr-hâ",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "габр",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "Tajik"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "گور",
      "roman": "gawr /gowr",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "archaic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "گاور",
      "roman": "gāwur, gāwar /gâvor, gâvar",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "cls": "گَبْر",
        "pl": "گبرها",
        "pl2": "گبران"
      },
      "expansion": "گبر • (gabr) (plural گبرها (gabr-hā / gabr-hâ), or گبران (gabrān / gabrân), Tajik spelling габр)",
      "name": "fa-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Persian",
  "lang_code": "fa",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Persian derogatory terms",
        "Persian religious slurs",
        "Persian terms with archaic senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Zoroastrian"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "religious",
          "religious"
        ],
        [
          "slur",
          "slur"
        ],
        [
          "Zoroastrian",
          "Zoroastrian"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "later derogatory",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, later derogatory, religious slur) Zoroastrian"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "slur"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Persian religious slurs",
        "Persian terms with archaic senses",
        "Persian terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Literal translation:\nReturn, return! Whatever thou art, return!\nWhether kafir, infidel, or idolater, return!\nThis threshold of ours is not a threshold of despair.\n[Even] if you've broken your repentance a hundred times, return!",
          "ref": "Attributed to both Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr (967–1049) and Rumi (1207–1273)",
          "roman": "sad bār agar tawba šikastī, bāz-ā!",
          "text": "باز آ باز آ هر آنچه هستی باز آ\nگر کافر و گبر و بتپرستی باز آ\nاین درگه ما درگه نومیدی نیست\nصد بار اگر توبه شکستی باز آ\nbāz-ā! bāz-ā! har ānči hastī bāz-ā!\ngar kāfir u gabr u but-parastī bāz-ā!\nīn dargah-i mā dargah-i nōmēdī nēst",
          "translation": "Literal translation:\nReturn, return! Whatever thou art, return!\nWhether kafir, infidel, or idolater, return!\nThis threshold of ours is not a threshold of despair.\n[Even] if you've broken your repentance a hundred times, return!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "kafir, infidel"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "religious",
          "religious"
        ],
        [
          "slur",
          "slur"
        ],
        [
          "kafir",
          "kafir"
        ],
        [
          "infidel",
          "infidel"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, religious slur) kafir, infidel"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "slur"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Persian colloquialisms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "wealthy man"
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) wealthy man"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡabr/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Persian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɡäbɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɡäbɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɡäbɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Kabuli"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɡäbɾ]",
      "note": "Hazaragi"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɡʲæbɹ]",
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɡäbɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Tajik",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-abr"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "huzvarishn"
  ],
  "word": "گبر"
}

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  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
  "msg": "unrecognized head form: گبران (gabrān / gabrân)",
  "path": [
    "گبر"
  ],
  "section": "Persian",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "گبر",
  "trace": ""
}

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