वर

Borrowed from Sanskrit वर (vara).

• (Delhi) 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 *wáras, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wáras, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cover, envelop”). The Sanskrit root is वृ (√vṛ, “to cover”).

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

वर • (vára) stem, m

1. "environing", "enclosing", circumference, space, room (RV., AV., TS.)

   वर आ पृथिव्याः (vára ā́ pṛthivyā́ḥ) — on the wide earth

2. stopping, checking (RV. I, 143, 5)

• → Old Javanese: awara (“screen”)

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *warás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *warás, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁os (“chosen, wanted (person or thing)”). The Sanskrit root is वृ (√vṛ, “to choose”). The adjective (in the sense of "high quality") and noun (in the sense of "gift") developed from the notion of "select", "chosen".

वर • (vará) stem

1. choosing

   पतिंवरा (patiṃvarā) — 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

वर • (vará) stem, m

1. "chooser", one who solicits a girl in marriage, suitor, lover, bridegroom, husband (rarely "son-in-law") (RV. etc.)
2. a bridegroom's friend (MW.)
3. a dissolute man (= वित (vita) or षिड्ग (ṣiḍga)) (L.)

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

1. "select", choicest, valuable, precious, best, most excellent or eminent among (genitive, locative, ablative, or compound) or for (genitive) (ŚrS., MBh. etc.)
2. (at the end of a compound) royal, princely (Jātakam.)
3. better, preferable, better than (ablative, rarely genitive) or among (ablative) (Mn., MBh. etc.)
4. eldest (W.)

वर • (vára) stem, m

1. boon, gift, reward, benefit, blessing, favour (RV. etc.)

   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 (VarBṛS.)
4. dowry (Pañcat.)
5. a kind of grain (= वरत (varata)) (KātyŚr., Sch.)
6. bdellium (L.)
7. sparrow (L.)
8. name of a son of श्वफल्क (śvaphalka) (VP.)
9. saffron (BhP.) (in compounds not always separable from the homographic word meaning "enclosing, etc")

• → Bengali: বর (bor)
• → Burmese: ဘုရား (bhu.ra:, “Buddha”)
• → Khamti: ၸြႃ (phraa, “Buddha”)
• Old Khmer: វ្រះ (vraḥ, “to be holy”)
  • Khmer: ព្រះ (preah, “Buddha”)
  • → Lao: ພຣະ (pha ra), ພະ (pha)
  • → Thai: พระ (prá, “royal; priestly; divine”), พร (pɔɔn, “blessing”)
• → Old Javanese: bra
• → Old Javanese: phra
  • Javanese: bra
• → Old Javanese: wara (“favour, gift”)
  • Javanese: ꦮꦫ (wara, “lady”)
  • → Balinese: ᬯᬭ (wara, “superior”)
• → Old Javanese: awara (“screen”)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਵਰ (var)

  Shahmukhi script: ور (var)

• → Tamil: வரம் (varam), வரன் (varaṉ)
• → Telugu: వరము (varamu, “blessing”), వరుడు (varuḍu, “excellent man; bridegroom; husband”)

• Monier Williams (1899) “वर”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 0921, 0922.