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durbar

Meaningdoor of admittance

Common meaning: a hall of audience

Journey through time

  1. Persiandar‘a door’source
  2. Persianmeaning shiftsa door → a prince's courtdar-bar‘a prince's court’source
  3. Englishmeaning shiftsa prince's court → a hall of audiencedurbar‘a hall of audience’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Persian dar ‘door of admittance’.

Roots

  • dar Persian “door of admittance”

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