عصر · عَصْر — late afternoon, early evening; (formal) era
Shifted meaningCertainnoun · Time & numbers · everyday
Same word, but the meaning has moved. Overlaps, with a twist.
Arabic
عَصْر
ʿaṣr/ʕasˤr/
In Arabic
era, age, epoch; also the afternoon (the time of the ʿaṣr prayer)
Persian
عصر
asr/æsr/
In Persian
late afternoon, early evening; (formal) era
- Root
- ع ص ر
Note. Everyday Persian asr is the time of day; in Arabic writing ʿaṣr is most often an era (al-ʿaṣr al-ḥadīth, the modern age).
Sources: Dehkhoda · Moʻin · Wehr