تلوار

Punjabi

Etymology

From Sanskrit तरवारि (taravāri).

Noun

تلوار • (talavār) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਤਲਵਾਰ)

1. sword

Urdu

Etymology

First attested as Middle Hindi تَلْوَار (talvār) / تَرْوَار (tarvār), inherited from Sanskrit तरवारि (taravāri, “sword; scimitar”). Compare with Punjabi تَلوار (talvār) and Sindhi ترارِ (tarārī).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t̪əl.ʋɑːɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɾ
• Hyphenation: تَل‧وار

Noun

تَلْوَار • (talvār) f (Hindi spelling तलवार)

1. a sword.

   Synonym: شمشیر (śamśīr)

Declension

Declension of تلوار
	singular	plural
direct	تلوار (talvār)	تلواریں (talvārẽ)
oblique	تلوار (talvār)	تلواروں (talvārõ)
vocative	تلوار (talvār)	تلوارو (talvāro)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• تلواری (talvārī)
• تَلوار باز (talvār-bāz, “swordsman”)
• تَلوار بازی (talvār-bāzī, “sword-fighting; fencing”)
• تَلْوار بَنْد (talvār-band, “warrior; soldier”, literally “sword-holder”)
• نَنْگی تَلوار (naṇgī-talvār, “unsheathed sword; fearless person”, literally “naked sword”)

Further reading

• “تلوار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “تلوار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “تلوار”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “تلوار”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “تلوار”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “تلوار”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “taravāri”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 324