عبر

From the root ع ب ر (ʕ-b-r). Compare Hebrew עָבַר (ʿāḇar, “to cross”), Old South Arabian 𐩲𐩨𐩧 (ʿbr, “to transgress”), Akkadian 𒁄 (ebēru, “to cross”).

عَبَرَ • (ʕabara) I, non-past يَعْبُرُ‎ (yaʕburu)

1. to cross, to traverse
2. to ford
3. to swim (something)
4. to pass over

عَبَرَ • (ʕabara) I, non-past يَعْبُرُ‎ (yaʕburu)

1. (transitive) to interpret
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 12:43:

     يَا أَيُّهَا ٱلْمَلَأُ أَفْتُونِي فِي رُؤْيَايَ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ لِلرُّؤْيَا تَعْبُرُونَ

     yā ʔayyuhā l-malaʔu ʔaftūnī fī ruʔyāya ʔin kuntum li-r-ruʔyā taʕburūna

     O people give me your opinion about my vision if you can see through it!

عَبْر • (ʕabr) m

1. verbal noun of عَبَرَ (ʕabara) (form I)

Adverbial accusative of عَبْر (ʕabr, “crossing”). Compare Old South Arabian 𐩲𐩨𐩧 (ʿbr, “towards”).

عَبْرَ • (ʕabra)

1. across

From the root ع ب ر (ʕ-b-r) and in the meanings of explaining, interpreting, expressing a semantic loan from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (wtltn' /⁠widārdan⁠/, “to cause to pass”) = Classical Persian گذاردن (guḏārdan, “to cause to pass; to clean, to purge; to put, to place”), [Book Pahlavi needed] (wcʾltn' /⁠wizārdan⁠/, “to separate; to explain, to interpret, to express”) = گزاردن (gozârdan, “to cause to pass; to draw the outline of a picture; to express”).

عَبَّرَ • (ʕabbara) II, non-past يُعَبِّرُ‎ (yuʕabbiru)

1. (ditransitive) to get across
   1. (obsolete, literally) to make cross, to cause to pass over, to convey across [+ بِ (object) = over what]
   2. (transferred) to express, to put into terms [+ عَنْ (object)]
2. (transitive) to interpret

• “ebēru”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎, volume 4, E, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1958, page 10
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1898) “Zum sporadischen Lautwandel in den semitischen Sprachen”, in Beiträge zur Assyriologie und semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎ (in German), volume 3, pages 69–70

From Arabic عَبَّرَ (ʕabbara).

• IPA^(key): /ʕab.bar/, [ˈʕab.bar]

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عبّر • (ʕabbar) II (present بعبّر (biʕabber))

1. to express
2. to consider, to care about