वैर

Borrowed from Sanskrit वैर (vaira). Doublet of बैर (bair).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ʋɛːɾ/

वैर • (vair) m

1. hostility, enmity

   Synonyms: बैर (bair), दुशमनी (duśamnī), शत्रुता (śatrutā)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “वैर”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

From a form related to वीर (vīra, “man, hero”); see there for more.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋɑːj.ɾɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑj.ɾɐ/

वैर • (vaira) stem

1. hostile, inimical, revengeful

वैर • (vaira) stem, n

1. enmity, hostility, animosity, grudge, quarrel or feud with
   • (Can we date this quote?), The Buddha, Dhammapada(pāḷi) (subsequently translated from Pali to Sanskrit), Yamakavagga, page 26; republished in The Eighteenth Book in the Suttanta-Pitaka: Khuddaka-Nikāya‎^[1], Colombo, 2009:

     5. න හි වෛරෙණ වෛරාණී ශාම්‍යන‍්තීහ කදාචන
     ක්‍ෂාන‍්ත්‍යා වෛරාණී ශම්‍යන‍්ති එෂ ධර්‍මඃ සනාතනඃ.

     5. Na hi vaireṇa vairāṇi śāmyantīha kadācana.
     Kṣāntyā vairāṇi śāmyanti eṣa dharmaḥ sanātanaḥ.

     5. For in this world hatreds are not ever settled by hatred.
     Hatreds are settled by forbearance. This is an eternal truth.

     (literally, “5. For in this world hatreds are not ever settled by hatred.
     Hatreds are settled by forbearance. This truth is eternal.”)

     (Wiktionary translation adapted from translation of the Pali by Ajahn Sujato.)

2. heroism, prowess
3. a hostile host
4. money paid as a fine for manslaughter

• Monier Williams (1899) “वैर”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1024/3.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[2] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 588-9