The story
- Old Persian · derived fromāpi-
- Middle Persian · derived fromʾp̄“water”
- Classical Persian · derived fromآبکار
- Hindustani · borrowed from
- English todayabkar
Borrowed from Hindustani آبکار (ābkār) / आबकार (ābkār), from Classical Persian آبکار (ābkār), from آب (āb, “water”) (from Middle Persian ʾp̄ (āp, “water”), from Old Persian āpi-, akin to Avestan 𐬁𐬟𐬱 (āfš, “water”), Sanskrit अप् (ap, “water”), Lithuanian ùpė, Old Prussian appi (“river”)) + کار (kâr, “does”), akin to Sanskrit कर (kara, “doing, giving, effecting”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.