سحری

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سَحَرِی (saharī). By surface analysis, سَحَر (sahar, “dawn”) +‎ ـِی (-ī).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sə.ɦə.ɾiː/, [sɛ.ɦɛ.ɾiː]
  • (common) IPA^(key): [sɛɦ.ɾiː]
  • (Punjabic Urdu) IPA^(key): [sɛ.ɾiː]

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• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

سَحَرِی • (saharī) f (Hindi spelling सहरी)

1. (Islam) suhoor, suhur (meal eaten before dawn during Ramadan).
   • 1985, رَوشنی [rauśnī, Light], page 121:

     یہ کئی کئی دِنوں کا ایک روزہ ہوتا اِفطار اور سحری کے موقع پر آپؐ کچھ نہ کھاتے

     ye kaī kaī dinõ kā ek roza hotā iftār or saharī ke mauqi' par āp kuch na khāte

     It used to be a fast of several days, and he [Muhammad P.B.U.H] did not eat anything when it came to Iftar and Suhoor

Declension

Declension of سحری
	singular	plural
direct	سَحَری (saharī)	سَحَرِیاں (sahariyā̃)
oblique	سَحَری (saharī)	سَحَرِیوں (sahariyō̃)
vocative	سَحَری (saharī)	سَحَرِیو (sahariyō)

Adjective

سَحَرِی • (saharī) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling सहरी)

1. relating to morning; dawn

Further reading

• “سحری”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “سحری”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سحری”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “سحري”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 644
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “سحري”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 753
• John Shakespear (1834) “سحری”, 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