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کنار

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Persian

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Persian [script needed] (knʾl /⁠kanār⁠/, side, edge), from a metathesis of کران (karân, border, edge).[1][2]

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? kanār
Dari reading? kanār
Iranian reading? kenâr
Tajik reading? kanor

Noun

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کِنار (kenâr)

  1. side
  2. edge; limit; boundary
    Synonyms: حد (hadd), کران (karân)
  3. shore, coast
    Synonym: ساحل (sâhel)
  4. (poetic) embrace, hug; (metonymically) chest, bosom
    Synonym: آغوش (âğuš)
    بوس و کنارbus o kenârkissing and embracing
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Preposition

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کِنارِ (kenâr-e)

  1. next to, besides
    آیا می‌توانیم کنار پنجره بنشینیم؟ (literary)
    âyâ mi-tavânim kenâr-e panjere be-nešinim?
    Can we sit next to the window?
    می‌شه کنار پنجره بشینیم؟ (colloquial)
    mi-še kenâr-e panjere be-šinim?
    Can we sit next to the window?

Adverb

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کِنار (kenâr)

  1. aside

References

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  1. ^ Edelʹman, D. I. (2011) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 4, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 287
  2. ^ Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 424

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (kunār). Compare Classical Syriac ܟܢܪܐ (kənārā), Old Armenian քնարուկ (kʻnaruk), Late Koine Greek κόνναρος (kónnaros), Iranian borrowings. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

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کنار (konâr)

  1. Ziziphus, especially of species Ziziphus spina-christi

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