جانور

جانور

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɑːnwaɾ/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɒːnwaɾ/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɒːnvæɾ/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɔːnvaɾ/

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Noun

Dari	جانور
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ҷонвар (jonvar)

جانور • (jânvar) (plural جانوران‎ (jânvarân) or جانور‌ها‎ (jânvar-hâ))

1. animal, beast, brute, creature

Synonyms

• حیوان‎ (heyvân)

Related terms

• جانورشناس‎ (jânvar-šenâs)
• جانورشناسی‎ (jânvar-šenâsi)

Descendants

• Tajik: ҷонвар (jonvar)
• → Assamese: জানোবাৰ (zanübar)
• → Azerbaijani: canavar
  • → Lezgi: жанавур (žanavur)
• → Avar: жанавар (žanawar)
• → Baluchi: جناور‎ (jináwar)
• → Bashkir: януар (yanuar)
• → Bengali: জানোয়ার (janoẇar)
• → Gujarati: જાનવર (jānvar)
• → Kyrgyz: жаныбар (janıbar)
• → Kumyk: жанавар (janawar)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: जानवर (jānvar)

  Urdu: جانور‎ (jānvar)

  • → Dhivehi: ޖަނަވާރު‎ (janavāru)
• → Kachchi: જનાવર (janāvar)
• → Marathi: जनावर (j̈anāvar)
• → Nepali: जनावर (janāwar)
• Kurdish:
  • → Central Kurdish: جانه‌وه‌ر‎ (canewer)
  • → Northern Kurdish: cinawir
• → Ottoman Turkish: جاناوار‎
  • Gagauz: canavar
  • Turkish: canavar
  • → Armenian: ջանավար (ǰanavar)
  • → Crimean Tatar: canavar
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਜਾਨਵਰ (jānvar)

  Shahmukhi: جانور‎ (jānvar)

• → Tatar: җанвар (canwar)
• → Turkmen: janawer
• → Uyghur: جانىۋار‎ (janiwar)
• → Uzbek: jonivor

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Punjabi

Etymology

From Persian جانور‎ (jânvar).

Noun

جانور • (jānvar) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਜਾਨਵਰ)

1. animal
2. beast

Synonyms

• حیوان‎ (haivān)

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Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian جانور‎ (jānvar).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɑːn.ʋəɾ/
• Rhymes: -əɾ
• Hyphenation: جان‧وَر

Noun

جانْوَر • (jānvar) m (Hindi spelling जानवर)

1. animal, beast
2. (figuratively) savage, uncivilized being

Declension

Declension of جانور
	singular	plural
direct	جانور‎ (jānvar)	جانور‎ (jānvar)
oblique	جانور‎ (jānvar)	جانوروں‎ (jānvarō̃)
vocative	جانور‎ (jānvar)	جانورو‎ (jānvarō)

References

• “جانور”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “جانور”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.