# खर
## Khaling
### Etymology

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### Noun

खर (khar)
* hand, arm

### References

* “खर”, in खालिङ - नेपाली - अङ्‍ग्रेजी शब्दकोश (Khaling - Nepali - English Dictionary), Nepal: SIL International, 2016.

## Nepali
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [kʰʌr]
* Phonetic Devanagari: खर्

### Noun

खर • (khar)
* thatch, straw

### References

* “खर”, in नेपाली बृहत् शब्दकोश (nepālī br̥hat śabdakoś) [Comprehensive Nepali Dictionary]‎, Kathmandu: Nepal Academy, 2018
* Schmidt, Ruth L. (1993) “खर”, in A Practical Dictionary of Modern Nepali, Ratna Sagar

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* khara (Latin script)
* 𑀔𑀭 (Brahmi script)
* খর (Bengali script)
* ඛර (Sinhalese script)
* ခရ or ၶရ (Burmese script)
* ขร or ขะระ (Thai script)
* ᨡᩁ (Tai Tham script)
* ຂຣ or ຂະຣະ (Lao script)
* ខរ (Khmer script)
* 𑄈𑄢 (Chakma script)

### Noun

खर m
* Devanagari script form of khara (“donkey”)

#### Declension
### Noun

खर gender unattested
* Devanagari script form of khara (“water”)

#### Declension
## Sanskrit
### Alternative forms

* খৰ (Assamese script)
* ᬔᬭ (Balinese script)
* খর (Bengali script)
* 𑰏𑰨 (Bhaiksuki script)
* 𑀔𑀭 (Brahmi script)
* ခရ (Burmese script)
* ખર (Gujarati script)
* ਖਰ (Gurmukhi script)
* 𑌖𑌰 (Grantha script)
* ꦑꦫ (Javanese script)
* 𑂎𑂩 (Kaithi script)
* ಖರ (Kannada script)
* ខរ (Khmer script)
* ຂຣ (Lao script)
* ഖര (Malayalam script)
* ᡘᠠᡵᠠ (Manchu script)
* 𑘏𑘨 (Modi script)
* ᠻᠠᠷᠠ᠋ (Mongolian script)
* 𑦯𑧈 (Nandinagari script)
* 𑐏𑐬 (Newa script)
* ଖର (Odia script)
* ꢓꢬ (Saurashtra script)
* 𑆒𑆫 (Sharada script)
* 𑖏𑖨 (Siddham script)
* ඛර (Sinhalese script)
* 𑩝𑩼 (Soyombo script)
* 𑚋𑚤 (Takri script)
* க²ர (Tamil script)
* ఖర (Telugu script)
* ขร (Thai script)
* ཁ་ར (Tibetan script)
* 𑒐𑒩 (Tirhuta script)
* 𑨌𑨫 (Zanabazar Square script)

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *kh₂er- (“stone, hard”) also found in Old Armenian քար (kʻar, “stone”), Welsh carreg (“stone”), Celtic cognates of English crag, and Albanian gërthje (“crab”).

#### Adjective

खर • (khára) stem
* hard, harsh, rough, sharp, pungent, acid
    Antonyms: मृदु (mṛdu), श्लक्ष्ण (ślakṣṇa)
* solid
    Antonym: द्रव (drava).
* dense (clouds)
* sharp, hot (wind)
* hurtful, injurious, cutting (as speech or word)
* sharp-edged
* cruel

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *kʰáras.

#### Noun

खर • (khára) stem, m
* donkey (so called from his cry)
* mule
* osprey
* heron
* crow
* a thorny plant (prickly nightshade (Solanum torvum) or perhaps camelthorn (Alhagi maurorum L.))
* name of a fragrant substance
* quadrangular mound of earth for receiving the sacrificial vessels (compare ἐσχάρα)
* a place arranged for building a house upon
* name of the 25th year of the sixty years' बृहस्पति cycle
* दैत्य or demon
* name of the असुर धेनुक
* name of a रक्षस् slain by राम (younger brother of रावण)
* name of an attendant of the Sun (= धर्म)
* name of a रुद्र
* ‘a she-mule’ » खरी-वात्सल्य
* name of one of the mothers in स्कन्द's retinue

##### Descendants

* Hindi: खरा (kharā)
* Punjabi: ਖਰ (khar)
* Telugu: ఖరము (kharamu)
* → Old Javanese: khara

### References

* Monier Williams (1899) “खर”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page {{{1}}}.
* Dravidian Origins and the West: Newly Discovered Ties with the Ancient Culture and Languages, Including Basque, of the Pre-Indo-European Mediterranean World, p. 325
* Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition
* Scigliano, Eric (2007): Michelangelo's Mountain: The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara, p. 84