# شار
## Arabic

* Root
* ش ر ي (š r y)
* 8 terms

### Etymology

Derived from the active participle of شَرَى (šarā, “to buy”)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃaː.rin/

### Noun

شَارٍ • (šārin) m (plural شُرَاة (šurāh), feminine شَارِيَة (šāriya))
* buyer

#### Declension
### References

* Baalbaki, Rohi (1995) “شار”, in Al-Mawrid: A Modern Arabic-English Dictionary, 7th edition, Beirut: Dar El-Ilm Lilmalayin, →ISBN
* Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “شار”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “شار”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
* Wehr, Hans (1960) “شار”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz

## Central Kurdish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃaːɾ/

### Noun

| Northern Kurdish | şar |
شار (şar)
* city, town
    Synonym: باژێڕ (bajêrr)

#### Derived terms

* شارۆکە (şaroke)
* شاری (şarî)
* شارەوان (şarewan)

### References

* Wahby, T., Edmonds, C. J. (1966) “shar”, in A Kurdish-English Dictionary, page 135
* Qazzaz, Shafiq (2000) “شار”, in The Sharezoor Kurdish–English dictionary, Erbil: Aras Press and Publishers, page 370

## Gurani
### Etymology

Derived from Persian شهر .

### Noun

شار (şār)
* city, town

## Persian
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʃɑːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʃɑːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʃɑːɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʃɑːɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʃɔːɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʃɒːɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʃɔɾ]

### Etymology 1

See شاریدن (šâridan).

#### Verb

شار • (šâr)
* present stem of شاریدن (šâridan)

#### Noun

شار • (šâr)
* flux
    شار مغناطیسی ― šâr-e meğnâtisi ― magnetic flux
** c. 1100, Amīr Mu'izzī, “Qaṣīda 233”, in دیوان امیر معزی‎:شار غرجستان اگر یابد نسیم همتش خاک آن بقعت‌ کند چون زر مشت‌افشار شارšār-i ğarjistān agar yābad nasīm-i himmat-aš xāk-i ān buq'at kunad čūn zar-i mušt-afšār šārIf the shār [king] of Gharjistan discovers the breeze of his high ambition, He will let flow [from his fingers] the earth of that swamp like soft gold.(Classical Persian transliteration)

### Etymology 2

Compare Old Armenian շար (šar, “silk”), an Iranian borrowing into Armenian.

#### Noun

شار • (šâr)
* (obsolete) kind of very fine muslin
** c. 1075, Abu'l-Fażl Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Bayhaqī, تاریخ بیهقی [Tārīkh-i Bayhaqī]:این خاتون عادت داشت که هر سالی امیر محمود را غلامی نادر و کنیزکی دوشیزه خیاره‌ فرستادی بر سبیل هدیه؛ و امیر وی را دستارهای قصب‌ و شار باریک‌ و مروارید و دیبای رومی فرستادی.īn xātūn ādat dāšt ki har sālē amīr mahmūd rā ğulāmē nādir u kanīzakē dōšīza-yi xiyāra firistādē bar sabīl-i hadiya; u amīr way rā dastār-hā-yi qasab u šār-i bārīk u marwarīd u dēbā-yi rūmī firistādē.Every year, this lady had the custom of sending Lord Mahmūd a precious slave boy and a select virgin slave girl as a gift; and the lord would send her linen turbans, thin fine muslin, pearls, and Byzantine brocade.(Classical Persian transliteration)

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Iranian, ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšatrám. Doublet of شاه (šâh).

#### Noun

شار • (šâr)
* (historical, obsolete) Title of the king of Gharchistan.
** c. 1100, Amīr Mu'izzī, “Qaṣīda 233”, in دیوان امیر معزی‎:شار غرجستان اگر یابد نسیم همتش خاک آن بقعت‌ کند چون زر مشت‌افشار شارšār-i ğarjistān agar yābad nasīm-i himmat-aš xāk-i ān buq'at kunad čūn zar-i mušt-afšār šārIf the shār of Gharjistan discovers the breeze of his high ambition, He will let flow [from his fingers] the earth of that swamp like soft gold.(Classical Persian transliteration)

### Further reading

* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “شار”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul