ār > hāra in other East Indo-European Languages (3)
According to Turner’s A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, Sanskrit word hāra means “necklace.” He also provides the cognates of hāra in other East Indo-European languages and dialects:
Prakrit hāra-, hāri-; Kashmiri āra, āru, ör; Sindhī hāru; Lahndā Awāṇkārī (dialect of Lahndā) hār; Panjābī hār; Kumaunī and Gaṅgoī (dialect of Kumaunī) hār; Nepāli hār, hāri; Assamese and Bengali hār; Orissa hāra, Bihārī hār, hār, harwā; Maithilī hār, hārī, harwā; Bhojpurī hār; Old Awadhī hāra; Hindī hārā; Gujarātī hār, hārⁱ; Marāṭhī hār; Sinhalese hara.
All these cognates and the following words related to hāra originate from the Tamil root ār.
muktāhāra, string of pearls. mukhahāra, face string.