As a Hindi name
दार · noun · feminine
स्त्री । पत्नी । भार्या — Śabdasāgara
दार · noun · feminine
सूली — Śabdasāgara
दार · dār · s.f.
= dāl, q.v — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 500
दार · dāra · s.f.
A wife — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 500
दार · feminine
wife
दार · masculine
wood; gallows
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi दार — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit दार (dāra).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
1. dāra mf(ī)n. (√ dṝ) tearing up, rending (cf. bhū-)
dāra m. rent, cleft, hole, TāṇḍyaBr. xv, 3, 7 (cf. udara-, karbu-, a-dāra-sṛt)
a Hindi word of Prakrit origin; it is not Sanskrit — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Prakrit दारु (dāru), from Sanskrit दारु (dāru), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *dā́ru, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dā́ru (“tree, wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *dóru. Also likely influenced by Classical Persian دار (dār) from the same source.” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
(√ dṝ) tearing up, rending (cf. bhū-)
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Dictionary citations
1. dāra mf(ī)n. (√ dṝ) tearing up, rending (cf. bhū-)
dāra m. rent, cleft, hole, TāṇḍyaBr. xv, 3, 7 (cf. udara-, karbu-, a-dāra-sṛt)
2. dāra m. pl. (probably not connected with 1. dāra and √ dṝ, but cf. Pāṇ. iii, 3, 20, Vārtt. 4) a wife (wives), GṛS.; Mn.; MBh. &c. (˚ān √ kṛ or pra-kṛ, take to wife, marry, MBh.; cf. kṛta-)
dāra rarely m. sg. (Āp. i, 14, 24; Gaut. xxii, 29) f. sg. (BhP. vii, 14, ii) and n. pl. (Pañc. i, 450).
dāra m. plu. (-rāḥ) A wife. E. dṝ to take, to tear, (a husband,) affix ghañ; also dārā.
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