تلوار

Punjabi

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit तरवारि (taravāri, “sword; scimitar”).

Noun

تَلْوَار • (talvār) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਤਲਵਾਰ)

1. sword

Declension

Declension of تلوار
dir. sg.	تَلْوَار (talvār)
dir. pl.	تَلْوَار (talvār)
	singular	plural
direct	تَلْوَار (talvār)	تَلْوَار (talvār)
oblique	تَلْوَار (talvār)	تَلْوَاراں (talvārāṉ)
vocative	تَلْوَارا (talvārā)	تَلْوَارو (talvāro)
ablative	تَلْوَاروں (talvāroṉ)	تَلْوَاراں (talvārāṉ)
locative	تَلْوَارے (talvāre)	تَلْوَارِیں (talvārīṉ)
instrumental	تَلْوَاروں (talvāroṉ)	–

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Hindi تَلْوَار (tlvar) (c. 1606) / تَرْوَار (trvar) (c. 1611), from Sanskrit तरवारि (taravāri, “sword; scimitar”).

Cognates

Assamese তৰোৱাল (torüal), Bengali তলোয়ার (tolōẇar), Gujarati તલવાર (talvār), Kashmiri तरवार (tarawār), Konkani तलवार (talvār), Marathi तलवार (talvār), Marwari तरवार (tarvār), Nepali तरवार (tarawār), Odia ତରୁଆରି (taruāri), Punjabi تَلْوار / ਤਲਵਾਰ (talvār), and Sindhi ترارِ / तरारि (tarāri).

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

More information

• “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