હીરો

Gujarati

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit हीरग / 𑀳𑀻𑀭𑀕 (hīraga), from Sanskrit हीरक (hīraka). Cognate with Hindustani ہِیرَا‎ / हीरा (hīrā), Marathi हिरा (hirā), Sindhi هيِرو‎ / हीरो, Punjabi ਹੀਰਾ (hīrā) / ہِیرا‎ (hīrā), Bengali হীরা (hīra), Assamese হীৰা (hira).

Noun

હીરો • (hīro) m

diamond
a brilliant, shining man
(sarcastic) a fool, idiot

Declension

Declension of હીરો
	singular	plural
nominative	હીરો (hīro)	હીરા (hīrā), હીરાઓ (hīrāo)
oblique/vocative	હીરા (hīrā)	હીરાઓ (hīrāo)
instrumental	હીરે (hīre)	હીરાએ (hīrāe)
locative	હીરે (hīre)	હીરે (hīre)

References

Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “hīra”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 817
“હીરો”, in Gujaratilexicon.com [Gujarati-English dictionary], Arnion Technologies, 2009.