yaar
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Hindustani یار (yār) / यार (yār), from Classical Persian یار (yār).
Noun
[edit]yaar (plural yaars)
- (India, Pakistan) A friend, pal, or buddy.
- Help me, yaar!
- 1990, Hanif Kureishi, chapter 15, in The Buddha of Suburbia, London, Boston: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 222:
- ‘I'm going to make the most of my life now, yaar,’ he said.
- (India, Pakistan, vulgar) lover
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