# سنار
## Arabic
### Noun

سُنَّار • (sunnār) m (plural سَنَانِير (sanānīr))
* Alternative form of سِنَّوْر (sinnawr, “cat”)

#### Declension
## Persian
### Etymology 1

From Parthian [Manichaean needed] (snʾr /⁠snār⁠/, “shallow, mudbank”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [sa.nɑːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sä.nɑːɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [se.nɒːɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [sä.nɔɾ]

#### Noun

| Dari | سنار |
| Iranian Persian | سنار |
| Tajik | санор |
سنار • (sanâr)
* shoal, sandbank

### Etymology 2

*-θra-suffixed form of سنه (sunah, “daughter-in-law”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [su.nɑːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sʊ.nɑːɾ], [sɪ.nɑːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sʊ.nɑːɾ], [sɪ.nɑːɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [sʊ.nɑːɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [su.nɔːɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [so.nɒːɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [su.nɔɾ], [si.nɔɾ]

#### Noun

| Dari | سنار |
| Iranian Persian | سنار |
| Tajik | сунор, синор |
سنار • (sonâr)
* Alternative form of سنه (sonah, “daughter-in-law”)

### Further reading

* Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “سنار”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎ (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 325b
* Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “سنه”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎ (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 339b

## Urdu
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle Hindi سنار (sunār) (c. 1609) / سونار (svnar /⁠sūnār⁠/) (c. 1572), from Apabhramsa 𑆱𑆶𑆤𑇀𑆤𑆳𑆫 (sunnāra), from Prakrit 𑀲𑀼𑀡𑁆𑀡𑀸𑀭 (suṇṇāra) from Sanskrit सुवर्णकार (suvarṇakāra), compound of सुवर्ण (suvárṇa) +‎ कार (kāra).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /sʊ.nɑːɾ/
* Rhymes: -ɑːɾ
* Hyphenation: سُ‧نار

### Noun

سُنار • (sunār) m (feminine سُنارَن (sunāran), Hindi spelling सुनार)
* goldsmith

#### Declension

Declension of سنار :
| | singular | plural |
| direct | سُنار (sunār) | سُنار (sunār) |
| oblique | سُنار (sunār) | سُناروں (sunārõ) |
| vocative | سُنار (sunār) | سُنارو (sunāro) |

#### Derived terms

* سُنارَن (sunāran, “goldsmith's wife”)
* سُناری (sunārī, “goldsmith's profession”)

### References

* ↑ “سنار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* ↑ John Shakespear (1834) “سنار”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
* ↑ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “suvarṇakāra”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 779

### Further reading

* “سنار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سنار”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 385
* Platts, John T. (1884) “سنار”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
* S. W. Fallon (1879) “سنار”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.