Arabic

Noun

جَوْهَر • ‎(jawhar) m ‎(collective, singulative جَوْهَرَة ‎(jawhara), plural جَوَاهِر ‎(jawāhir))

1. jewel(s)

   جَوْهَر فَرْد‎ ― jawhar fard ― atom

2. precious stone(s)
3. pearl(s)
4. gem(s), gemstone(s)
5. any stone from which one may extract a profit
6. precious ore
7. essence (inherent nature), substance, matter, nature
8. element
9. soul
10. marrow
11. worth, excellence
12. lines of a Damascene blade
13. veins of marble
14. diacritical point

Declension

Descendants

• Turkish: cevher

References

• “جوهر” in Edward William Lane (1863), Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “جوهر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic جَوْهَر ‎(jawhar), itself from Persian گوهر ‎(gowhar), from Middle Persian gwhl ‎(gôhr).

Noun

جوهر • ‎(jowhar) ‎(plural جواهر ‎(javâher))

1. (rare, obsolete or literary) jewel
2. (rare, obsolete or literary) gem
3. (rare, obsolete or literary) pearl

Noun

جوهر • ‎(jowhar) ‎(plural جوهرها ‎(jowhar-hâ))

1. (philosophy) essence, substance
2. ink
3. dye
4. acid

Synonyms

• (acid): اسید ‎(asid)

Derived terms

• جوهر سرکه ‎(jowhar-e serke)
• جوهر گوگرد ‎(jowhar-e gugerd)
• جوهر لیمو ‎(jowhar-e limu)
• جوهر نمک ‎(jowhar-e namak)
• جوهر مورچه ‎(jowhar-e murče)
• جوهری ‎(jowhari)