آذار

From Classical Syriac ܐܕܪ (ʾāḏār), ultimately from Akkadian 𒌚𒊺 (addāru). Cognate with Hebrew אֲדָר (ădar, “Aḏar, the twelfth month of the Hebrew lunisolar calendar”).

آذَار • (ʔāḏār) m

1. March (Solar calendar used in Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq)

• → Persian: آذار (âzâr)

• (month): Previous: شُبَاط (šubāṭ). Next: نَيْسَان (naysān)
• رَبِيع الأَوَّل (rabīʕ al-ʔawwal)
• مَارْس (mars), مَارِس (māris)

Learned borrowing from Arabic آذَار (ʔāḏār), from Classical Syriac ܐܕܪ (ʾāḏār).

• IPA^(key): /ʔa(ː)zaːr/
• IPA^(key): (marked, formal) /ʔa(ː)ðaːr/

آذَار • (ʔāzār, ʔāḏār) m

1. March

   Synonym: آدَار (ʔādār)

• The Syriac month names are neutral in Lebanon and Syria, not formal in and of themselves as in Palestine and Jordan.

Native variant of the above, used by some speakers. Either:

1. Inherited from Arabic آذَار (ʔāḏār) or a substrate Aramaic language, or
2. A semi-learned borrowing from Arabic آذَار (ʔāḏār) completed well before Levantine varieties began to lose interdentals like /ð/.

• IPA^(key): /ʔa(ː)ðaːr/

آذَار • (ʔāḏār) m

1. (rural or dated) alternative form of آدَار (ʔādār, “March”)

• This pronunciation is only found in the speech of rural or older speakers who still have interdental consonants like /ð/.

Borrowed from Arabic آذَار (ʔāḏār), from Classical Syriac ܐܕܪ.

آذار • (āzār / âzâr) (Tajik spelling озор)

1. (Syriac calendar) March

• → Gujarati: આઝાર (ājhār)

• (month): Previous: شباط (šobât). Next: نَیسان (neysân)

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

• آدار (ʔādār)

Learned borrowing from Arabic آذَار (ʔāḏār), from Classical Syriac ܐܕܪ (ʾāḏār).

• IPA^(key): /ʔaː.ðaːr/, [ʔaˈðˤɑːrˤ], [ʔaˈzˤɑːrˤ]

آذار • (ʔāḏār) m

1. (formal) March

   Synonym: شهر تلاتة (šahr talāte)