ہیر

Kashmiri

Perso-Arabic	ہیر (hyr)
Devanagari	हेर (hēr)
Sharada

Noun

ہیر • (hēr) f

1. a ladder
2. a staircase, a flight of stairs

Urdu

Alternative forms

• ھیر (hīr)

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀳𑀻𑀭 (hīra), from Sanskrit हीर (hīra).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɦiːɾ/

Noun

ہیر • (hīr) m (Hindi spelling हीर)

1. diamond
2. essence, elemental part, pith, gist
3. vigour, energy

Proper noun

ہیر • (hīr) f (Hindi spelling हीर)

1. Heer, the female tragic lover from a classical Punjabi romantic legend
2. (by extension) a tragic lover

References

• “ہیر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ہیر”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “ہیر”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “ہیر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.