# نهر
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Semitic *nahar- (“river”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nahr/, /na.har/
* Audio:(file)

#### Noun

نَهْر or نَهَر • (nahr or nahar) m (plural أَنْهَار (ʔanhār) or أَنْهُر (ʔanhur) or نُهُر (nuhur) or نُهْر (nuhr) or نُهُور (nuhūr))
* river

##### Derived terms

* مِنَ النَّهْرِ إلَى الْبَحْرِ (mina n-nahri ʔilā l-baḥri)

##### Descendants

* South Levantine Arabic: نهر (nahr)
* → Azerbaijani: nəhr
* → Persian: نهر
** → Hindustani:
    Hindi: नहर (nahar)
    Urdu: نَہَر (nahar)
* → Ottoman Turkish: نهر
** Turkish: nehir
* → Tajik: наҳр (nahr)
* → Uzbek: nahr

###### via the plural form أَنْهَار (ʔanhār)

* → Kazakh: аңғар (añğar)
* → Uzbek: anhor

### Etymology 2

Denominal from نَهْر (nahr).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /na.ha.ra/

#### Verb

نَهَرَ • (nahara) I (non-past يَنْهَرُ (yanharu), verbal noun نَهْر (nahr))
* to flow forth upon, to betide
* to yell at, to reprimand, to rebuff, to child
    لَا تَنْهَرْ وَالِدَيْكَ!lā tanhar wālidayka!Don't yell at your parents!

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nahr/

#### Noun

نَهْر • (nahr) m
* verbal noun of نَهَرَ (nahara) (form I)

##### Declension
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَهْر (nahr, “river”).

### Noun

نهر • (nehir) (plural انهار or نهر)
* river, a large stream which drains a land mass
    Synonym: ایرماق (ırmak)

#### Derived terms

* نهری (nehiri, “pertaining to a river, fluviatile”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: nehir

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “nehir1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3517
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نهر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1293
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Flumen”, 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 592
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “نهر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 5290
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “nehir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نهر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2116

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَهْر (nahr).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [nahɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [näɦɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [näɦɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [nɑːɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [nɔːɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [næɦɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [näɦɾ]

### Noun

نَهْر • (nahr)
* brook; creek; stream
    کنار نهر ― kenâr-e nahr ― by the stream; streamside
    زیر درختان نهر جاری است.zir-e deraxtân nahr jâri ast.The stream flows under the trees.
* (rare) river
    Synonyms: رودخانه (rudxâne), رود (rud), دریا (daryâ)

#### Descendants

* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: नहर (nahar)
    Urdu: نَہَر (nahar)

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic نَهْر (nahr).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nahr/, [ˈnˤɑ.h(ɪ)rˤ]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

### Noun

نهر • (nahr) m (plural أنهر (ʔanhor) or أنهار (ʔanhār))
* river
    نهر الأردن ― nahr il-ʔurdon ― River Jordan
    Audio (Ramallah):(file)

#### See also

* جدول (jadwal, “creek, brook”)