بکر

See also: پکر, and بكر

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بِكْر (bikr).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [bikɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bɪkɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bɪkɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [bɪkɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bikɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [bekʲɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bikɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	bikr
Dari reading?	bikr
Iranian reading?	bekr
Tajik reading?	bikr

Noun

بکر • (bekr) (plural بکرها (bekr-hâ) or ابکار (abkâr))

1. virgin
2. (figurative) something untouched; something unsullied
   • c. 1380, Jahān Malik Khātūn, “Introduction”, in دیوان جهان‎^[1]:

     مصوری که صور ابکار افکار بر صفحات ضمیر اولی‌الالباب کشید […]

     musawwirē ki suwar-i abkār-i afkār bar safāhat-i zamīr-i ūlū-l-albāb kašīd […]

     the painter [i.e. God] who draws images of unsullied thoughts [lit. the virgins of thoughts] on the pages of the intellects of the prudent […]

     (Classical Persian romanization)

Adjective

بکر • (bekr) (comparative بکرتَر (bekr-tar), superlative بکرتَرین (bekr-tarin))

1. virgin, untouched, pristine

   جنگل بکر ― jangal-e bekr ― virgin forest

   بکرترین دیدنیهای حومه تهران

   bekr-tarin didani-hâ-ye howme-ye tehrân

   the most pristine sights in the suburbs of Tehran

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “بکر”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim