سحر

From Proto-Semitic *šaḥ(a)r- (“dawn, morning”). Cognate with Akkadian 𒀉𒄘𒍣𒂵 (šērum), Hebrew שַׁחַר (šáḥar, “dawn”) and Ugaritic 𐎌𐎈𐎗 (šḥr, “dawn; tomorrow, the future”); see Canaanite deity Shahar.

سَحَر • (saḥar) m

1. the last part of the night before daybreak; predawn

• سحور (saḥūr, “predawn meal eaten before fasting”)

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “سحر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

سَحْر or سَحَر • (saḥr or saḥar) m (dual سَحْرَان (saḥrān) or سَحَرَان (saḥarān), plural سُحُور (suḥūr))

1. lung

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

سِحْر • (siḥr) m (plural أَسْحَار (ʔasḥār) or سُحُور (suḥūr))

1. verbal noun of سَحَرَ (saḥara) (form I)
2. witchcraft, magic, sorcery, wizardry
3. charm; enchantment

• اِنْقَلَبَ السِّحْرُ عَلَى السَّاحِرِ (inqalaba s-siḥru ʕalā s-sāḥiri, idiom)

• Maltese: seħer
• → Azerbaijani: sehr
• → Bashkir: сихыр (sixır)
• → Baluchi: سحر (sihr)
• → Persian: سحر (sehr)
• → Malay: sihir
• → Ottoman Turkish: سحر (sihir)
  • Turkish: sihir
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Latin script: sìhīr

    Cyrillic script: сѝхӣр

• → Swahili: sihiri
• → Zazaki: sihir
• → Urdu: سِحْر (sihr)
• → Uyghur: سېھىر (sëhir)
• → Uzbek: sehr

سَحَرَ • (saḥara) I, non-past يَسْحَرُ‎ (yasḥaru)

1. to bewitch, to charm, to spellbind, to fascinate, to curse
2. to hurt one's heart, to restrict one's chest or breathing

سَحَّرَ • (saḥḥara) II, non-past يُسَحِّرُ‎ (yusaḥḥiru)

1. to conjure
2. to bewitch, to charm

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “سحر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 635–636
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “سحر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 290
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “سحر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1316-1318
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “سحر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 483

From Arabic سِحْر (siḥr).

سحر • (sihr, sahr)

1. magic

• جاتو (játú)
• جادو (jádú)
• جادوگر
• سحرگو (sahargo)
• سحر کنوخ (sihr kanox)

From Arabic سَحَر (saḥar).

سحر (sahar)

1. dawn

From Arabic سَحَر (saḥar).

• IPA^(key): [sɛhɑɾ]

سحر • (sehar)

1. dawn, daybreak

   Synonyms: بام (bam), شفق (şafak), طاك (dañ, tañ), فجر (facr)

• سحرخیز (seharhız, “who rises from bed early in the morning”)
• سحرگاه (sehargâh) and سحرگه (sehargeh, “morning-time”)
• سحری (seharı, “matinal”)

From Arabic سِحْر (siḥr).

• (15th–17th century) IPA^(key): [sɯhɾ], [sɯhɯɾ]
• (18th–20th century) IPA^(key): [sihɾ], [sihiɾ]

سحر • (sıhr, sıhır, sihr, sihir)

1. magic, witchcraft

• سحرباز (sihrbaz, sihirbaz, “magician”)
• سحار (sehhar, “magician”)
• سحربازلق (sıhırbazlık, sihirbazlık, “sorcery”)
• سحرلمك (sihirlemek, “to enchant”)
• سحرلی (sihirli, “enchanted”)
• سحری (sihri, “magic”)

• Turkish: sihir
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin script: sìhīr

  Cyrillic script: сѝхӣр

Borrowed from Arabic سَحَر (saḥar).

سحر • (sahar)

1. dawn
   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 371”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎:

     ما درس سحر در ره میخانه نهادیم
     محصول دعا در ره جانانه نهادیم

     mā dars-i sahar dar rah-i mayxāna nihādēm
     mahsūl-i du'ā dar rah-i jānāna nihādēm

     We have cast away our morning classes on the way to the tavern;
     We have cast away the fruits of our prayers on the way to the beloved.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

سحر • (sahar)

1. a female given name, Sahar, from Arabic

Borrowed from Arabic سِحْر (siḥr).

سحر • (sehr)

1. witchcraft, magic, sorcery, wizardry

Borrowed from Classical Persian سَحَر (sahar), from Arabic سَحَر (saḥar).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sə.ɦəɾ/, [sɛ.ɦɛɾ]

سَحَر • (sahar) f (Hindi spelling सहर)

1. dawn, daybreak

• سَحْری (sahrī, “suhur, a pre-dawn breakfast during the Ramadan fasting”)

Borrowed from Classical Persian سِحْر (sihr), from Arabic سِحْر (siḥr).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /seːɦɾ/, /sɪɦɾ/, [sɛ.ɦɛɾ]

سِحْر • (sehr or sihr) m (Hindi spelling सेहर)

1. enchantment, sorcery, magic, wizardry, witchcraft

• جادُو (jādū)
• ٹونا (ṭonā)