See also: شاجر and ساخر

Arabic

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Root
س ح ر (s ḥ r)
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Etymology

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Derived from the active participle of سَحَرَ (saḥara, to enchant, to coax).

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Adjective

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سَاحِر (sāḥir) (feminine سَاحِرَة (sāḥira), masculine plural سَاحِرُونَ (sāḥirūna) or سَحَرَة (saḥara) or سُحَّار (suḥḥār), feminine plural سَاحِرَات (sāḥirāt) or سَوَاحِر (sawāḥir))

  1. enchanting, bewitching, charming

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Noun

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سَاحِر (sāḥirm (plural سَاحِرُونَ (sāḥirūna) or سَحَرَة (saḥara) or سُحَّارٌ (suḥḥārun), feminine سَاحِرَة (sāḥira))

  1. sorcerer, wizard
  2. charmer

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Azerbaijani: sahir
  • Ottoman Turkish: ساحر
  • Persian: ساحر (sâher)
  • Urdu: ساحر
  • Uzbek: sohir

Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic سَاحِر (sāḥir).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? sāhir
Dari reading? sāhir
Iranian reading? sâher
Tajik reading? sohir

Noun

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Dari ساحر
Iranian Persian
Tajik соҳир

ساحر (sâher) (plural ساحرها (sâher-hâ) or سحره (sahere))

  1. sorcerer, wizard
    Synonym: جادوگر (jâdugar)
    Coordinate term: ساحره (sâhere)
    • c. 1126, Abū'l-Fażl Rašīd-ud-Dīn Maybudī, کشف الاسرار و عدة الابرار[1]:
      ابن عباس گفت: سحره فرعون هفتاد و دو مرد بودند و چهار صد نیز گفته‌اند و هفتاد هزار گفته‌اند، وهب گفت: سی و سه هزار بودند، ابن جریح گفت: نهصد بودند. سیصد از پارس و سیصد از روم و سیصد از اسکندریه.
      ibn-i abbās guft: sahara-yi fir'awn haftād u dō mard būdand u čāhar sad nēz gufta'and u haftād hazār gufta'and, wahb guft: sī u sih hazār būdand, ibn-i jarīh guft: nuh sad būdand. sī sad az pārs u sī sad az rūm u sī sad az iskandariyya.
      Ibn ʻAbbās said: "Pharaoh's sorcerers were seventy-two men, and some have said four hundred, and some have said seventy thousand." Wahb said: "They were thirty-three thousand." Ibn Jāriḥ said: "They were nine hundred, three hundred from Persia and three hundred from Rome and three hundred from Alexandria."
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

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