"शहर" meaning in Hindi

See शहर in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ʃə.ɦəɾ/ [Delhi], [ʃɛ.ɦɛɾ] [Delhi]
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšatrám Middle Persian 𐭱𐭲𐭥𐭩 (štʿy) Classical Persian شَهْر (šahr)bor. Hindi शहर (śahar) Borrowed from Classical Persian شَهْر (šahr). Doublet of खाता (khātā). Cognate of Sanskrit क्षत्र (kṣatrá, “dominion, kingdom”). Etymology templates: {{etymon|hi|bor|fa-cls>شَهْر>city|id=city|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšatrám Middle Persian 𐭱𐭲𐭥𐭩 (štʿy) Classical Persian شَهْر (šahr)bor. Hindi शहर (śahar), {{bor+|hi|fa-cls|شَهْر}} Borrowed from Classical Persian شَهْر (šahr), {{doublet|hi|खाता}} Doublet of खाता (khātā), {{cog|sa|क्षत्र|t=dominion, kingdom|tr=kṣatrá}} Sanskrit क्षत्र (kṣatrá, “dominion, kingdom”) Head templates: {{hi-noun|g=m|ur=شہر}} शहर • (śahar) m (Urdu spelling شہر) Inflection templates: {{hi-ndecl|<M>}} Forms: śahar [romanization], شہر [Urdu], no-table-tags [table-tags], शहर [direct, singular], शहर [direct, plural], शहर [oblique, singular], शहरों [oblique, plural], शहर [singular, vocative], शहरो [plural, vocative]
  1. city Synonyms: नगर, पुर

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hi",
        "2": "bor",
        "3": "fa-cls>شَهْر>city",
        "id": "city",
        "tree": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-Iranian *kšatrám\nMiddle Persian 𐭱𐭲𐭥𐭩 (štʿy)\nClassical Persian شَهْر (šahr)bor.\nHindi शहर (śahar)",
      "name": "etymon"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hi",
        "2": "fa-cls",
        "3": "شَهْر"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Classical Persian شَهْر (šahr)",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hi",
        "2": "खाता"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of खाता (khātā)",
      "name": "doublet"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "क्षत्र",
        "t": "dominion, kingdom",
        "tr": "kṣatrá"
      },
      "expansion": "Sanskrit क्षत्र (kṣatrá, “dominion, kingdom”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-Iranian *kšatrám\nMiddle Persian 𐭱𐭲𐭥𐭩 (štʿy)\nClassical Persian شَهْر (šahr)bor.\nHindi शहर (śahar)\nBorrowed from Classical Persian شَهْر (šahr). Doublet of खाता (khātā). Cognate of Sanskrit क्षत्र (kṣatrá, “dominion, kingdom”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "śahar",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "شہر",
      "tags": [
        "Urdu"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hi-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "शहर",
      "roman": "śahar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "direct",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "शहर",
      "roman": "śahar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "direct",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "शहर",
      "roman": "śahar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "oblique",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "शहरों",
      "roman": "śaharõ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "oblique",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "शहर",
      "roman": "śahar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "शहरो",
      "roman": "śaharo",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "g": "m",
        "ur": "شہر"
      },
      "expansion": "शहर • (śahar) m (Urdu spelling شہر)",
      "name": "hi-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "<M>"
      },
      "name": "hi-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Hindi",
  "lang_code": "hi",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Automatic Inscriptional Pahlavi transliterations containing ambiguous characters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Hindi entries with etymology trees",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Hindi entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              5,
              9
            ]
          ],
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              7,
              12
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              7,
              10
            ]
          ],
          "english": "What city do you live in?",
          "roman": "āp kis śahar mẽ rahte ha͠i?",
          "text": "आप किस शहर में रहते हैं?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              5,
              9
            ],
            [
              25,
              29
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              9,
              12
            ],
            [
              23,
              26
            ]
          ],
          "english": "This city of Bombay is a city of \"incidents\"",
          "ref": "1983, “Bombay Sheher Haadson Ka”, in M. G. Hashmat (lyrics), Kalyanji–Anandji (music), Haadsa, performed by Amit Kumar, Universal Music India:",
          "roman": "yah bambaī śahar hādsõ kā śahar hai",
          "text": "यह बम्बई शहर हादसों का शहर है",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "city"
      ],
      "id": "en-शहर-hi-noun-EaYsI0Er",
      "links": [
        [
          "city",
          "city"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "नगर"
        },
        {
          "word": "पुर"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʃə.ɦəɾ/",
      "tags": [
        "Delhi"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʃɛ.ɦɛɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Delhi"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "शहर"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hi",
        "2": "bor",
        "3": "fa-cls>شَهْر>city",
        "id": "city",
        "tree": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-Iranian *kšatrám\nMiddle Persian 𐭱𐭲𐭥𐭩 (štʿy)\nClassical Persian شَهْر (šahr)bor.\nHindi शहर (śahar)",
      "name": "etymon"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hi",
        "2": "fa-cls",
        "3": "شَهْر"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Classical Persian شَهْر (šahr)",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hi",
        "2": "खाता"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of खाता (khātā)",
      "name": "doublet"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "क्षत्र",
        "t": "dominion, kingdom",
        "tr": "kṣatrá"
      },
      "expansion": "Sanskrit क्षत्र (kṣatrá, “dominion, kingdom”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-Iranian *kšatrám\nMiddle Persian 𐭱𐭲𐭥𐭩 (štʿy)\nClassical Persian شَهْر (šahr)bor.\nHindi शहर (śahar)\nBorrowed from Classical Persian شَهْر (šahr). Doublet of खाता (khātā). Cognate of Sanskrit क्षत्र (kṣatrá, “dominion, kingdom”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "śahar",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "شہر",
      "tags": [
        "Urdu"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hi-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "शहर",
      "roman": "śahar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "direct",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "शहर",
      "roman": "śahar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "direct",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "शहर",
      "roman": "śahar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "oblique",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "शहरों",
      "roman": "śaharõ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "oblique",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "शहर",
      "roman": "śahar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "शहरो",
      "roman": "śaharo",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "g": "m",
        "ur": "شہر"
      },
      "expansion": "शहर • (śahar) m (Urdu spelling شہر)",
      "name": "hi-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "<M>"
      },
      "name": "hi-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Hindi",
  "lang_code": "hi",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Automatic Inscriptional Pahlavi transliterations containing ambiguous characters",
        "Hindi doublets",
        "Hindi entries with etymology trees",
        "Hindi entries with incorrect language header",
        "Hindi lemmas",
        "Hindi masculine consonant-stem nouns",
        "Hindi masculine nouns",
        "Hindi nouns",
        "Hindi terms borrowed from Classical Persian",
        "Hindi terms derived from Classical Persian",
        "Hindi terms derived from Middle Persian",
        "Hindi terms derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian",
        "Hindi terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Hindi terms with quotations",
        "Hindi terms with usage examples",
        "Pages with 4 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              5,
              9
            ]
          ],
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              7,
              12
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              7,
              10
            ]
          ],
          "english": "What city do you live in?",
          "roman": "āp kis śahar mẽ rahte ha͠i?",
          "text": "आप किस शहर में रहते हैं?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              5,
              9
            ],
            [
              25,
              29
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              9,
              12
            ],
            [
              23,
              26
            ]
          ],
          "english": "This city of Bombay is a city of \"incidents\"",
          "ref": "1983, “Bombay Sheher Haadson Ka”, in M. G. Hashmat (lyrics), Kalyanji–Anandji (music), Haadsa, performed by Amit Kumar, Universal Music India:",
          "roman": "yah bambaī śahar hādsõ kā śahar hai",
          "text": "यह बम्बई शहर हादसों का शहर है",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "city"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "city",
          "city"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "नगर"
        },
        {
          "word": "पुर"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʃə.ɦəɾ/",
      "tags": [
        "Delhi"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʃɛ.ɦɛɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Delhi"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "शहर"
}

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