# برف
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian برف (barf).

### Noun

برف • (berf)
* snow, the frozen state of water that falls as precipitation
    Synonyms: ثلج (selc), قار (kar)

#### Derived terms

* برفاب (berfab, “melted snow”)
* برفدار (berfdar, “snowy”)
* برفدان (berfdan, “icehouse”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: berf

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “berf”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 554
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “برف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 261
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Nix”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1141
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “برف”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 775
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “budak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “برف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 356

## Persian
### Etymology

From Middle Persian 𐭥𐭯𐭫 (ʿpl /⁠wafr⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *wafrah (“snow”). Compare Northern Kurdish berf, Central Kurdish بەفر (befr).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [baɾf]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [bäɾf]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [bäɾf]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [bäɾf]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [bäɾf]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [bæɹf]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [bäɾf]
* Audio (Iran):(file)
* Rhymes: -arf

### Noun

| Dari | برف |
| Iranian Persian | برف |
| Tajik | барф |
برف • (barf)
* snow

#### Related terms

* برفی (barfi)
* برف آمدن (barf âmadan)
* برف باریدن (barf bâridan)
* برف‌روب (barf-rub)
* آدم برفی (âdam-barfi)

#### Descendants

* → Bengali: বরফ (bôrof)
* → Bhojpuri: बरफ (baraph)
* → Gujarati: બરફ (baraph)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: बर्फ़ (barf)
    Urdu: برف (barf)
* → Marathi: बर्फ (barpha)
* → Nepali: बरफ (baraph)
* → Omani Arabic: برف (barf)
** → Swahili: barafu
* → Ottoman Turkish: برف (berf)
* → Punjabi: ਬਰਫ਼ / برف (barf)
* → Sindhi: بَرْفَ (barfa)
* → Somali: baraf
* → Varli: બરફ

## Punjabi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian برف (barf).

### Noun

بَرف • (barf) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਬਰਫ਼)
* snow

## Sindhi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian برف (barf).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [bərfə]

### Noun

بَرفَ • (barfa) f (Devanagari बर्फ़)
* snow
* ice

### References

* Khānu, Balocu (1960–1988) “بَرفَ”, in Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāta (in Sindhi), Hyderabad, Sindh: Sindhī Adabī Borḍ
* Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “بَرْفَ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society

## Southwestern Fars
### Noun

برف (barf)
* (Masarm, Deh Sarv) snow

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بَرْف (barf), derived from Middle Persian 𐭥𐭯𐭫 (ʿpl /⁠wafr⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *wafrah (“snow”) ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wapras. Cognate with Wakhi ورف (warf), Pashto واوره (wâwra) and Baluchi برپ (barp).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /bəɾf/
* (Punjabic Urdu) IPA: [bə.ɾəf]
* Rhymes: -əɾf

### Noun

بَرْف • (barf) f (Hindi spelling बर्फ़)
* ice
* snow
* (figurative) the cold, frigid
* (figurative) white, shining

#### Declension

Declension of برف :
| | singular | plural |
| direct | بَرْف (barf) | بَرْفیں (barfẽ) |
| oblique | بَرْف (barf) | بَرْفوں (barfõ) |
| vocative | بَرْف (barf) | بَرْفو (barfo) |

#### Derived terms

* بَرْف باری (barf bārī)
* بَرْف بَرَسْنا (barf barasnā)
* بَرْف پوش (barf poś)
* بَرْف پَرْورْدَہ (barf parvrda)
* بَرْف پَڑْنا (barf paṛnā)
* بَرْف پِینا (barf pīnā)
* بَرْفاب (barfāb)
* بَرْفانی (barfānī)
* بَرْفی (barfī)

### Further reading

* “برف”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “برف”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
* “برف”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.