دار

See also: داز

Arabic

Etymology 1

Derived from the active participle of the verb دَرَّ (darra, “to flow copiously”), from the root د ر ر (d-r-r).

Adjective

دَارّ • (dārr) (feminine دَارَّة (dārra), masculine plural دَارُّونَ (dārrūna), feminine plural دَارَّات (dārrāt))

1. flowing copiously
2. productive, rich, lucrative
3. profitable

Declension

Declension of adjective دَارّ (dārr)

Singular	Masculine		Feminine
	basic singular triptote		singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Informal	دَارّ dārr	الدَّارّ ad-dārr	دَارَّة dārra	الدَّارَّة ad-dārra
Nominative	دَارٌّ dārrun	الدَّارُّ ad-dārru	دَارَّةٌ dārratun	الدَّارَّةُ ad-dārratu
Accusative	دَارًّا dārran	الدَّارَّ ad-dārra	دَارَّةً dārratan	الدَّارَّةَ ad-dārrata
Genitive	دَارٍّ dārrin	الدَّارِّ ad-dārri	دَارَّةٍ dārratin	الدَّارَّةِ ad-dārrati
Dual	Masculine		Feminine
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Informal	دَارَّيْن dārrayn	الدَّارَّيْن ad-dārrayn	دَارَّتَيْن dārratayn	الدَّارَّتَيْن ad-dārratayn
Nominative	دَارَّانِ dārrāni	الدَّارَّانِ ad-dārrāni	دَارَّتَانِ dārratāni	الدَّارَّتَانِ ad-dārratāni
Accusative	دَارَّيْنِ dārrayni	الدَّارَّيْنِ ad-dārrayni	دَارَّتَيْنِ dārratayni	الدَّارَّتَيْنِ ad-dārratayni
Genitive	دَارَّيْنِ dārrayni	الدَّارَّيْنِ ad-dārrayni	دَارَّتَيْنِ dārratayni	الدَّارَّتَيْنِ ad-dārratayni
Plural	Masculine		Feminine
	sound masculine plural		sound feminine plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Informal	دَارِّين dārrīn	الدَّارِّين ad-dārrīn	دَارَّات dārrāt	الدَّارَّات ad-dārrāt
Nominative	دَارُّونَ dārrūna	الدَّارُّونَ ad-dārrūna	دَارَّاتٌ dārrātun	الدَّارَّاتُ ad-dārrātu
Accusative	دَارِّينَ dārrīna	الدَّارِّينَ ad-dārrīna	دَارَّاتٍ dārrātin	الدَّارَّاتِ ad-dārrāti
Genitive	دَارِّينَ dārrīna	الدَّارِّينَ ad-dārrīna	دَارَّاتٍ dārrātin	الدَّارَّاتِ ad-dārrāti

Etymology 2

From the root د و ر (d-w-r).

Verb

1. to turn, to revolve, to rotate

   تَدُورُ ٱلْأَرْضُ حَوْلَ ٱلشَّمْسِ.

   tadūru l-ʔarḍu ḥawla š-šamsi.

   The Earth revolves around the Sun.

2. to go around, to circulate
3. to go around, to move around

Nomen

دَار • (dār) f (plural دُور (dūr) or دِيَار (diyār) or دِيَارَات (diyārāt) or دِيَرَة (diyara))

1. house
2. building, structure, edifice
3. land, country

Declension

Declension of noun دَار (dār)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	دَار dār	الدَّار ad-dār	دَار dār
Nominative	دَارٌ dārun	الدَّارُ ad-dāru	دَارُ dāru
Accusative	دَارًا dāran	الدَّارَ ad-dāra	دَارَ dāra
Genitive	دَارٍ dārin	الدَّارِ ad-dāri	دَارِ dāri
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	دَارَيْن dārayn	الدَّارَيْن ad-dārayn	دَارَيْ dāray
Nominative	دَارَانِ dārāni	الدَّارَانِ ad-dārāni	دَارَا dārā
Accusative	دَارَيْنِ dārayni	الدَّارَيْنِ ad-dārayni	دَارَيْ dāray
Genitive	دَارَيْنِ dārayni	الدَّارَيْنِ ad-dārayni	دَارَيْ dāray
Plural	basic broken plural triptote‎; sound feminine plural‎; broken plural triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	دُور‎; دِيَار‎; دِيَارَات‎; دِيَرَة dūr‎; diyār‎; diyārāt‎; diyara	الدُّور‎; الدِّيَار‎; الدِّيَارَات‎; الدِّيَرَة ad-dūr‎; ad-diyār‎; ad-diyārāt‎; ad-diyara	دُور‎; دِيَار‎; دِيَارَات‎; دِيَرَة dūr‎; diyār‎; diyārāt‎; diyarat
Nominative	دُورٌ‎; دِيَارٌ‎; دِيَارَاتٌ‎; دِيَرَةٌ dūrun‎; diyārun‎; diyārātun‎; diyaratun	الدُّورُ‎; الدِّيَارُ‎; الدِّيَارَاتُ‎; الدِّيَرَةُ ad-dūru‎; ad-diyāru‎; ad-diyārātu‎; ad-diyaratu	دُورُ‎; دِيَارُ‎; دِيَارَاتُ‎; دِيَرَةُ dūru‎; diyāru‎; diyārātu‎; diyaratu
Accusative	دُورًا‎; دِيَارًا‎; دِيَارَاتٍ‎; دِيَرَةً dūran‎; diyāran‎; diyārātin‎; diyaratan	الدُّورَ‎; الدِّيَارَ‎; الدِّيَارَاتِ‎; الدِّيَرَةَ ad-dūra‎; ad-diyāra‎; ad-diyārāti‎; ad-diyarata	دُورَ‎; دِيَارَ‎; دِيَارَاتِ‎; دِيَرَةَ dūra‎; diyāra‎; diyārāti‎; diyarata
Genitive	دُورٍ‎; دِيَارٍ‎; دِيَارَاتٍ‎; دِيَرَةٍ dūrin‎; diyārin‎; diyārātin‎; diyaratin	الدُّورِ‎; الدِّيَارِ‎; الدِّيَارَاتِ‎; الدِّيَرَةِ ad-dūri‎; ad-diyāri‎; ad-diyārāti‎; ad-diyarati	دُورِ‎; دِيَارِ‎; دِيَارَاتِ‎; دِيَرَةِ dūri‎; diyāri‎; diyārāti‎; diyarati

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “دار”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 470–471
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “دار”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 69
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “دار”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 930
• Shapira, Dan D. Y. (2009) “Irano-Arabica: contamination and popular etymology. Notes on the Persian and Arabic lexicons (with references to Aramaic, Hebrew and Turkic)”, in Христианский Восток – Новая Серия, volume 5 (XI), Moscow: Издательство Российской Академии Наук и Государственного Эрмитажа, page 172, with the exaggerated claim of دَار (dār, “house”) being an Aramaic loan-word
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “دار”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 343–344

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Bakhtiari

Etymology

From Middle Persian dār, from Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎽𐎢𐎺 (d-a-ru-u-v /⁠dāruv⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *dā́ru. Cognate with Persian دار, Laki دار (dar), Central Kurdish دار (dar), Northern Kurdish dar, Tat dar, Talysh do, Mazanderani دار, Baluchi دار.

Nomen

دار (daar)

1. tree

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Baluchi

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *dā́ru, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dāru, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru.

Nomen

دار • (dár)

1. wood
2. stick

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Central Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *dā́ru, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dāru, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru.

Nomen

دار (dar)

1. tree
2. wood (substance, timber)
3. stick, staff, rod

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Mazanderani

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *dā́ru, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dāru, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru.

Nomen

دار (dâr)

1. tree

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Moroccan Arabic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daːr/

Etymology 1

From Arabic أَدَارَ (ʔadāra, “to manage, to operate”).

Verb

دار • (dār) I (non-past يدير (ydīr))

1. to do

   Synonym: عمل (ʕmal)

Etymology 2

From Arabic دَارَ (dāra).

Verb

دار • (dār) I (non-past يدور (ydūr))

1. to turn
2. to go around
3. to rotate

Etymology 3

From Arabic دَار (dār).

Nomen

دار • (dār) f (plural ديور (dyūr) or ديورة (dyūra), diminutive دويرة (dwīra))

1. house
2. family, folks

   قلت للدار باللي ما جايش للمغرب هاد راس العام.

   qult l-ed-dār belli ma jāyši l-el-maḡrib hād rās el-ʕām

   I told my family I won't be coming to Morocco at the end of the year.

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North Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic دار (dār, “house”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daːr/

Nomen

دار • (dār) m

1. living-room

   تفضل، قاعدين سوا بالدار.

   tfaḍḍal, ʾāʿdīn sawa bi-d-dār

   Come in, we’re all sitting in the living-room.

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Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [script needed] (dʾl, “tree, gallows; wood”), from Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎽𐎢𐎺 (d-a-ru-u-v /⁠dāruv⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *dā́ru, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dāru, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru.

Nomen

دار • (dâr)

1. tree
2. gallows
3. wood

Derived terms

• دار زدن (dâr zadan)
• دار و درخت (dâr-o-deraxt)
• دارچین (dārchin)

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “dār”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 24

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Suffix

دار • (-dâr)

1. present stem of داشتن (dâštan), to have. A suffix indicating ownership in compound words.

Related terms

• پولدار (puldâr)
• حسابدار (hesâbdâr)
• دلدار (deldâr)
• سردار (sardâr)
• شهردار (šahrdâr)
• صندوقدار (sanduqdâr)
• کتابدار (ketâbdâr)

See also

Category Persian terms suffixed with دار not found

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “دار+dār”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

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South Levantine Arabic

Root
د و ر
6 terms

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daːr/, [dɑːr]

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Etymology 1

From Arabic دَارَ (dāra).

Verb

دار • (dār) I (present بدور (bidūr), active participle داير (dāyer))

1. (intransitive) to revolve, to turn
2. to roam, to travel around, to wander about

Conjugation

Conjugation of دار (dār)
		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
past	m	درت (durt)	درت (durt)	دار (dār)		درنا (durna)	درتو (durtu)	دارو (dāru)
	f		درتي (durti)	دارت (dārat)
present	m	بدور (badūr)	بتدور (bitdūr)	بدور (bidūr)		مندور (mindūr)	بتدورو (bitdūru)	بيدورو (bidūru)
	f		بتدوري (bitdūri)	بتدور (bitdūr)
subjunctive	m	ادور (adūr)	تدور (tdūr)	يدور (ydūr)		ندور (ndūr)	تدورو (tdūru)	يدورو (ydūru)
	f		تدوري (tdūri)	تدور (tdūr)
imperative	m		دور (dūr)				دورو (dūru)
	f		دوري (dūri)

Etymology 2

From Arabic أَدَارَ (ʔadāra).

Alternative forms

• أدار (ʔadār)

Verb

دار • (dār) I (present بدير (bidīr))

1. (transitive) to turn, to direct (toward)
2. to administer, to manage, to run
3. to pour out

   ديرلي شاي!

   dīr-li šay

   Pour me out some tea!

Conjugation

Conjugation of دار (dār)
		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
past	m	درت (dirt)	درت (dirt)	دار (dār)		درنا (dirna)	درتو (dirtu)	دارو (dāru)
	f		درتي (dirti)	دارت (dārat)
present	m	بدير (badīr)	بتدير (bitdīr)	بدير (bidīr)		مندير (mindīr)	بتديرو (bitdīru)	بديرو (bidīru)
	f		بتديري (bitdīri)	بتدير (bitdīr)
subjunctive	m	ادير (adīr)	تدير (tdīr)	يدير (ydīr)		ندير (ndīr)	تديرو (tdīru)	يديرو (ydīru)
	f		تديري (tdīri)	تدير (tdīr)
imperative	m		دير (dīr)				ديرو (dīru)
	f		ديري (dīri)

See also

• دار باله (dār bālo, “to be careful”)

Etymology 3

From Arabic دَار (dār).

Nomen

دار • (dār) f (plural دور (dūr))

1. house, home

   Synonym: بيت (bēt)

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Ushojo

Nomen

دار (dār)

1. a sloping place on a mountain