نهره

Persian

Etymology

Ultimately of Semitic origin; if not from Arabic نَهْر (nahr, “river”) by a multistep semantic change as in river → liquid → milk → churn, from Aramaic נַהְרָא / ܢܰܗܪܴܐ (nahrā, “river”) in the sense of canal pertinent to urbanized Mesopotamia used figuratively for the passageway of milk.

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [nah.ˈɾa]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [näɦ.ɾǽ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [nɑː.ɾǽ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [nɔː.ɾǽ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [næɦ.ɹé]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [näɦ.ɾǽ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	nahra
Dari reading^?	nahra
Iranian reading^?	nahre
Tajik reading^?	nahra

Noun

نهره • (nehre)

churn

Descendants

→ Azerbaijani: nehrə

References

Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “نهره”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “نهره”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “نهره”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 1380a