ابر

Borrowed from Classical Persian ابر (abr), from Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾbl /⁠abr⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *abráh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *abʰrás, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥bʰrós. Doublet of આભ (ābha).

ابر • (abar) m (Standard Gujarati અબર) (Lisan ud-Dawat)

1. cloud

   Synonym: وادل (vādal)

ابر

1. Jawi spelling of abar‎.

From Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾbl), [script needed] (ʾp̄l /⁠abr⁠/, “cloud”), from Proto-Iranian *abráh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *abʰrás, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥bʰrós.

Cognate with Avestan 𐬀𐬡𐬭𐬀 (aβra), Sanskrit अभ्र (abhra), Latin imber and Ancient Greek ἀφρός (aphrós).

Readings
Classical reading?	aḇr
Dari reading?	abr
Iranian reading?	abr
Tajik reading?	abr

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Dari	ابر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	абр

ابر • (abr) (plural ابرها (abr-hâ))

1. cloud
2. a branch of Persian miniature
3. sponge (a piece of porous material used for washing)

• ابری (abri)
• ابر و باد (abr-o-bâd)
• ابرسازی (abr-sâzi)
• ابر چینی (abr-e čini)
• ابرناک (abrnâk)
• ابرک (abrak)

• → Azerbaijani: əbr
• → Bengali: আবর (abor)
• → Hindi: अब्र (abr)
• → Urdu: ابر (abr)

From Middle Persian 𐭬𐭣𐭬 (mdm /⁠abar⁠/) (whence also بر (bar)), from Proto-Iranian *upári, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *upári, from Proto-Indo-European *upér.

Cognates include English over, Latin super (whence English super), Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér), Old Armenian վեր (ver), German über, Avestan 𐬎𐬞𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌 (upaⁱri).

Readings
Classical reading?	aḇar
Dari reading?	abar
Iranian reading?	abar
Tajik reading?	abar

ابر • (abar)

1. A prefix roughly equivalent to English super-, English over-

   ابر (abar, “super”) + قدرت (qodrat, “power”) = ابرقدرت (abarqodrat, “superpower”)

   ابر (abar, “super”) + نواختر (now-axtar, “nova”) = ابرنواختر (abarnowaxtar, “supernova”)

• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “ابر”, 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 I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 66a

ابر (abr)

1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv, Kuzarg) cloud

Borrowed from Classical Persian ابر (abr).

ابر • (abr) m (Hindi spelling अब्र)

1. cloud

   Synonym: بادل (bādal)

• ابری (abrī)

From ابل (abal), from Sanskrit [Term?].

ابر • (abar) (Hindi spelling अबर)

1. weak

From اب (ab).

ابر • (abar) (Hindi spelling अबर)

1. now

• اب (ab)