شور

See also: سؤر‎, سور‎, سؤز‎, and سوز‎

Khowar

Etymology

From Sanskrit शत (śata), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćatám, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm. Compare Hindi सौ (sau), Urdu سو‎ (sau), Gujarati સો (so), Assamese শ (xo).

Numeral

شور (šor)

hundred

References

Elena Bashir; Maula Nigah; Rahmat Karim Baig (2005), “شور”, in A digital Khowar-English dictionary with audio, Chicago: South Asia Language and Area Center, University of Chicago.

Persian

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /ʃoːɾ/

(Dari): IPA^(key): /ʃoːɾ/

(Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /ʃuːɾ/
(Tajik): IPA^(key): /ʃɵːɾ/

Etymology 1

From Parthian 𐫢𐫇𐫡‎ (šwr /šōr/); compare with Middle Persian [script needed] (swr /sōr/). cognate with Northern Kurdish şor, sûr, Central Kurdish سوێر‎ (swêr), Baluchi ‎ (šōr, šowr), Baluchi ‎ (sowr), Harzani سور (sür) and Pashto ښرنه‎ (ӽarǝ́na, “saline”). Perhaps from Proto-Iranian *sauraH (“salty”), from Proto-Indo-European *súHros (“sour; salty”).

Adjective

Iranian Persian	شور
Dari	شور
Tajik	шӯр (šür)

شور • (šur)

salty (of taste)
Coordinate terms: شیرین‎ (širin), تلخ‎ (talx), ترش‎ (torš), تند‎ (tond)
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, Reynold A. Nicholson, transl., مثنوی معنوی‎ [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 1118:
  ‏او ز بحر عذب آب شور خورد / تا که آب شور او را کور کرد‎
  u ze bahr-e 'azb âb-e šur xord / tâ ke âb-e šur u-râ kur kard
  He has drunk salt water from the sweet Sea, so that the salt water has made him blind.

Etymology 2

Derived from the verb ‎ (šuridan), ‎ (šulidan).

Noun

شور • (šūr)

excitement
uproar, clamor
Dastgāh-e Šur, one of the seven dastgahs of Persian Music.

Derived terms

پرشور‎ (por-šur, “passionate, ardent”)

Verb

شور • (šur)

present stem form of ‎

Urdu

Etymology

From Persian ‎ (šūr).

Noun

شور • (śor) m (Hindi spelling शोर)

noise
uproar, clamor

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu شور‎ (šōr).

Noun

شور (šōr)

noise
uproar, clamor