کبوتر

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (kpwtl), 𐫐𐫁𐫇𐫤𐫡 (kbwtr /⁠kabōtar⁠/, “pigeon”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kapáwtas (“pigeon”).

• Rhymes: -ar

کبوتر • (kabutar) (plural کبوترها (kabutar-hâ) or کبوتران (kabutarân))

1. pigeon, dove

• کفتر (kaftar)
• حمام (hamâm)

• کبود (kabud)

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਕਬੂਤਰ (kabūtar)

  Shahmukhi script: کَبُوتَر (kabūtar)

• → Urdu: کَبُوتَر (kabūtar)

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “kabōtar”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press

Borrowed from Classical Persian کبوتر (kabūtar, “pigeon; dove”).

Cognate with Baluchi کپوت (kapōt, “pigeon”), Kalasha کوھوو (kohów, “dove”), and Gandhari 𐨐𐨬𐨆𐨡 (kavoda, “pigeon”).

کبوتر • (kabūtar)

1. (figuratively) innocent

کبوتر • (kabūtar) m (Hindi spelling कबूतर)

1. pigeon, dove

   Synonym: کپوت (kapot)

2. (figurative) beloved; a young maiden

• کَبُوتری (kabūtarī, “female pigeon; beautiful woman; dancing girl”)
• کَبُوتَر خانَہ (kabūtar-xāna, “dovecote”, literally “dove-house”)
• کَبُوتَر باز (kabūtar-bāz, “pigeon-breeder; lover”)
• کَبُوتَر بازی (kabūtar-bāzī, “pigeon-rearing”)
• خُون کَبُوتَر (xūn-e-kabūtar, “red wine”, literally “dove blood”)
• کَبوتَرِ نامَہ بَر (kabūtar-e-nāma-bar, “carrier pigeon”)

• “کبوتر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “کبوتر”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John Thompson (1884) “کبوتر”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
• “کبوتر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.