بخار

From the root ب خ ر (b ḵ r), related to vapor. Compare with بَخَرَ (baḵara, “to boil”), تَبَخَّر (tabaḵḵar, “to evaporate, to perfume with incense”) and بُخُور (buḵūr, “incense”).^[1]

بُخَار • (buḵār) m (plural أَبْخِرَة (ʔabḵira))

1. vapor, fume
2. steam

• Gulf Arabic: بخار (buḵār)
• → Armenian: բուխարի (buxari)
• → Azerbaijani: buxar, buxarı
• Hindustani:
  • → Hindi: बुख़ार (buxār)
  • → Urdu: بخار (buxār)
• → Georgian: ბუხარი (buxari)
  • → Bats: ბუხარ (buxar)
• → Persian: بخار (boxâr)
• → Turkish: buhar

Borrowed from Arabic بُخَار (buḵār).

• Rhymes: -ɑːr

بخار • (boxâr)

1. steam, vapor

Borrowed from Classical Persian بُخَار (buxār), borrowed from Arabic بُخَار (buḵār).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): [bʊ̆.ˈkʰäːr(ə̆)], [bʊ̆.ˈxäːr(ə̆)]

بُخَار • (buxār) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਬੁਖ਼ਾਰ)

1. a fever
2. steam; vapour
3. (figuratively) any emotion – anger, excitement, passion etc.

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “بُخار”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: عزیز پبلشرز [ʻazīz pabliśarz]
• “ਬੁਖਾਰ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025

Borrowed from Classical Persian بُخَار (buxār), borrowed from Arabic بُخَار (buḵār).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bʊ.xɑːɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɾ
• Hyphenation: بُ‧خَار

بُخَار • (buxār) m (formal plural بُخارات (buxārāt), Hindi spelling बुख़ार)

1. fever
2. steam; vapour; exhalation
3. smoke
4. anger; anguish