वार

Borrowed from Punjabi وار‎ (vār) (ਵਾਰ).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /ʋɑːɾ/, [ʋäːɾ]

वार • (vār) m (Urdu spelling وار‎)

1. assault, attack

   Synonyms: आक्रमण (ākramaṇ), हमला (hamlā), प्रहार (prahār), धावा (dhāvā), चढ़ाई (caṛhāī)

2. a day of the week
3. occasion, time

   Synonyms: (more common) बार (bār), दफ़ा (dafā)

   दस वार

   das vār

   on ten occasions, ten times

• वार करना (vār karnā)

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “vāra”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884), “वार”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “वार”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Bahri, Hardev (1989), “वार”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons.

IPA^(key): /ʋaɾ/

From Sanskrit पात (pāta, “attack”).

वार • (vār) m

1. attack

   Synonyms: हल्ला (hallā), प्रहार (prahār)

• वार करणे (vār karṇe, “to attack”)

वार • (vār) m

1. a day of the week

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋɑ́ː.ɾɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑː.ɾɐ/

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

वार • (vā́ra) stem, m

1. Alternative form of वाल (vāla, “the tail of an animal”)

From the root वृ (vṛ).

वार • (vā́ra) stem, m

1. keeping back, restraining
2. anything which covers or surrounds or restrains, a cover
3. anything which causes an obstruction, a gate, doorway
4. anything enclosed or circumscribed in space or time, especially an appointed place
5. the time fixed or appointed for anything
6. choice
7. anything chosen or exquisite, goods, treasure

Probably from वर (vara, “choosing”).[1]

वार • (vā́ra) stem, m

1. a moment, occasion, opportunity
2. a multitude, quantity
3. an arrow
4. a prickly chaff flower (Achyranthes aspera)
5. the turn of a day (under the regency of a planet)
6. a day of the week

• Assamese: বাৰ (bar)
• Bengali: বার (bar)
• Hindi: बार (bār)
• Marathi: वार (vār)
• Old Javanese: wāra
  • Javanese: ꦮꦫ (wara, “day”)
  • → Balinese: ᬯᬵᬭ (wara, “day”)
• Pali: vāra
• Romani: var
• → Kannada: ವಾರ (vāra)
• → Malayalam: വാരം (vāraṁ)
• → Tamil: வாரம் (vāram)
• → Telugu: వారం (vāraṁ)

वार • (vā́ra) stem, n

1. a vessel for holding spirituous liquor
2. a particular artificial poison

Borrowed from Dravidian, compare Malayalam വാഴ (vāḻa).

वार • (vā́ra) stem, m

1. plantain tree

• Monier Williams (1899), “वार”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 943.