عمر

See also: غمر and ع م ر

Arabic

Root
ع م ر (ʕ-m-r)

Verb

عَمَرَ • (ʕamara) I, non-past يَعْمُرُ or يَعْمِرُ‎ (yaʕmuru or yaʕmiru)

  1. to live long, to be long-lived

Conjugation

Verb

عَمَرَ • (ʕamara) I, non-past يَعْمُرُ or يَعْمِرُ‎ (yaʕmuru or yaʕmiru)
عَمُرَ • (ʕamura) I, non-past يَعْمُرُ‎ (yaʕmuru)

  1. to thrive, to prosper, to flourish, to flower, to bloom
  2. to be inhabited, to be peopled, to be populated
  3. to be civilized, to be cultivated
  4. to be full, to be filled

Conjugation

Verb

عَمَرَ • (ʕamara) I, non-past يَعْمُرُ‎ (yaʕmuru)

  1. to fill with life, to cause to thrive, to make prosperous
  2. to inhabit, to live, to dwell
  3. to fill, to pervade
  4. to reign
  5. to build, to erect, to construct
  6. to rebuild, to restore, to reconstruct

Conjugation

Verb

عَمَّرَ • (ʕammara) II, non-past يُعَمِّرُ‎ (yuʕammiru)

  1. to prolong life, to grant long life
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:96:
      يَوَدُّ أَحَدُهُمْ لَوْ يُعَمَّرُ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ
      yawaddu ʔaḥaduhum law yuʕammaru ʔalfa sanatin
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. to populate, to people
  3. to build, to erect, to construct
  4. to rebuild, to reconstruct
  5. to repair, to restore, to overhaul, to refurbish, to recondition

Conjugation

Noun

عُمُر or عُمْر • (ʕumur or ʕumr) m (plural أَعْمَار (ʔaʕmār))

  1. life as a period of time, length of life, lifespan, lifetime
    كَمْ تَبْلُغُ مِنَ الْعُمْر؟kam tabluḡu mina l-ʕumr?How old are you?
  2. age
    Synonym: سِنّ (sinn)

Declension

Descendants

  • Maltese: għomor
  • Azerbaijani: ömür (lifetime)
  • Bashkir: ғүмер (ğümer, lifetime)
  • Bengali: ওমর (ōmor, age)
  • Hindi: उमर (umar)
  • Kazakh: ғұмыр (ğūmyr), өмір (ömır)
  • Koyra Chiini: alomour (long and prosper life, in Timbuktu songhaï/songhay language), alomur
  • Kumzari: اُمر (umr)
  • Malay: umur (age)
  • Ottoman Turkish: عمر (ʼümr, ʼömür)
    • Turkish: ömür
    • Albanian: ymër
    • Armenian: էօմիւր (ēōmiwr), էօմր (ēōmr), ումբր (umbr)
  • Persian: عمر ('omr)
  • Swahili: umri
  • Tajik: умр (umr)
  • Tatar: гомер (ğomer, lifetime)
  • Urdu: عمر (umar)
  • Uzbek: umr

See also

  • حَياة (ḥayāh, life in general, the state of being alive)
  • مَعِيشَة (maʕīša, life as a way of living, conditions of life)

Noun

عَمْر • (ʕamr) m

  1. verbal noun of عَمَرَ (ʕamara) (form I), "living long"/"long living" (in the gerundal sense)

Declension

Noun

عُمَر • (ʕumar) m

  1. verbal noun of عَمَرَ (ʕamara) (form I), "living long"/"long living" (in the gerundal sense)

Declension

Proper noun

عُمَر • (ʕumar) m

  1. a male given name, Umar, Omar
  2. (Islam) ʿUmar ibn al-Ḵaṭṭāb, recognized as the Islamic prophet's second rightly-guided successor in Sunni Islam

Declension

Descendants

See also

References

Moroccan Arabic

Root
ع م ر
2 terms

Etymology 1

From Arabic عَمَّرَ (ʕammara).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʕam.mar/

Verb

عمر • (ʕammar) II (non-past يعمر (yʕammar))

  1. to fill (a container, etc.)
Conjugation
    Conjugation of عمر
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m عمّرت (ʕammart) عمّرتي (ʕammarti) عمّر (ʕammar) عمّرنا (ʕammarna) عمّرتوا (ʕammartu) عمّروا (ʕammru)
f عمّرت (ʕammrāt)
non-past m نعمّر (nʕammar) تعمّر (tʕammar) يعمّر (yʕammar) نعمّروا (nʕammru) تعمّروا (tʕammru) يعمّروا (yʕammru)
f تعمّري (tʕammri) تعمّر (tʕammar)
imperative m عمّر (ʕammar) عمّروا (ʕammru)
f عمّري (ʕammri)

Etymology 2

From Arabic عُمْر (ʕumr).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʕmur/, /ʕmar/

Noun

عمُر or عمَر • (ʕmur or ʕmar) m (plural أعمار (ʔaʕmār))

  1. age

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic عُمْر (ʕumr).

Noun

عمر • (ʼümr, ʼömür)

  1. life, existence
    Synonyms: حیات (hayat), یاشام (yaşam)
  2. lifespan (of humans)
  3. happy life
Usage notes
  • Sense 3 was only pronounced as ömür.
Descendants
  • Turkish: ömür
  • Albanian: ymër
  • Armenian: էօմիւր (ēōmiwr), էօմր (ēōmr), ումբր (umbr)

References

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic عُمَر (ʕumar).

Proper noun

عمر • (ʼümer, ʼömer)

  1. (Islam) Umar, the second caliph recognised in Sunni Islam
  2. a male given name, equivalent to English Omar
Descendants

References

Pashto

Noun

عمر • (transliteration needed) ?

  1. age

Persian

Etymology 1

From Arabic عُمْر (ʕumr).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? umr
Dari reading? umr
Iranian reading? omr
Tajik reading? umr

Noun

Dari عمر
Iranian Persian
Tajik умр

عمر • (omr)

  1. lifetime; lifespan
    تمام عمرtamâm-e omrall his life
    عمر طولانیomr-e tulânilong life
Derived terms
  • عمر کردن (omr kardan, to live; to pass one's life)
expressions
  • خدا عمرت بده (xodâ omr-et bedeh, God bless you, literally God give you life)
  • عمرش وفا نکرد (omr-eš vafâ na-kard, he passed away, literally his lifespan was disloyal)

Etymology 2

From Arabic عُمَر (ʕumar).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ʔʊ.mǽɾ]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [ʔʊ.mǽɾ]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [ʔu.mǽɾ]

Readings
Classical reading? umar
Dari reading? umar
Iranian reading? omar
Tajik reading? umar

Proper noun

Dari عمر
Iranian Persian
Tajik Умар

عمر • (omar)

  1. (Islam) Omar bin al-Khattab, second Sunni Islamic caliph and a companion of Muhammad
  2. a male given name
Derived terms
  • عمری (omari, Sunni)

See also

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Arabic عَمْر (ʕamr).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? amr
Dari reading? amr
Iranian reading? amr
Tajik reading? amr

Proper noun

عمر • (amr)

  1. (Islamic law) Richard Roe; a conventional placeholder name in Islamic law, used for the second party along with زید (zeyd, first party) and بکر (bakr, optional third party).

South Levantine Arabic

Root
ع م ر
3 terms

Etymology 1

From Arabic عَمَّرَ (ʕammara).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʕam.mar/, [ˈʕam.mar]
  • (file)

Verb

عمّر • (ʕammar) II (present بعمّر (biʕammer))

  1. to build, to rebuild
Conjugation
    Conjugation of عمّر (ʕammar)
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m عمّرت (ʕammart) عمّرت (ʕammart) عمّر (ʕammar) عمّرنا (ʕammarna) عمّرتو (ʕammartu) عمّرو (ʕammaru)
f عمّرتي (ʕammarti) عمّرت (ʕammarat)
present m بعمّر (baʕammer) بتعمّر (bitʕammer) بعمّر (biʕammer) منعمّر (minʕammer) بتعمّرو (bitʕammru) بعمّرو (biʕammru)
f بتعمّري (bitʕammri) بتعمّر (bitʕammer)
subjunctive m اعمّر (aʕammer) تعمّر (tʕammer) يعمّر (yʕammer) نعمّر (nʕammer) تعمّرو (tʕammru) يعمّرو (yʕammru)
f تعمّري (tʕammri) تعمّر (tʕammer)
imperative m عمّر (ʕammer) عمّرو (ʕammru)
f عمّري (ʕammri)

Etymology 2

From Arabic عُمْر (ʕumr).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʕumr/, [ˈʕʊ.m(ʊ)r]
  • (file)

Noun

عمر • (ʕumr) m (plural أعمار (ʔaʕmār))

  1. age
    قديش عمرك؟
    ʔaddēš ʕumrak?
    How old are you?
    (literally, “How much is your age?”)
    (file)
    عمري تلاتين (سنة).
    ʕumri talātīn (sane).
    I'm thirty years old.
    (literally, “My age is thirty (years).”)
    الناس اللي أعمارهم بالستّين لازم يروحو عند الدكتور أكتر من مرّة بالسنة.
    in-nās illi ʔaʕmārha bis-sittīn lāzem yrūḥu ʕind id-doktōr ʔaktar min marra bis-sane.
    People in their sixties should go to the doctor more than once a year.
    (literally, “People that their ages are in the sixties should go to the doctor more than once a year.”)
  2. lifetime, life span
  3. (by extension, with enclitic determiner) ever, never
    عمرك رحت ع فلسطين؟
    ʕomrak ruḥt ʕ falasṭīn
    Have you ever gone to Palestine?
See also
  • حياة (ḥayā, life, lifetime)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian عمر ('umr), taken from Arabic عُمْر (ʕumr).

Pronunciation

Noun

عُمْر • (’umr) f (Hindi spelling उम्र)

  1. age (number of years one has lived)
  2. life; lifetime

Declension

Declension of عمر
singular plural
direct عمر (’umr) عمریں (’umrẽ)
oblique عمر (’umr) عمروں (’umrõ)
vocative عمر (’umr) عمرو (’umro)

Proper noun

عُمَر • (’umar) m (Hindi spelling उमर)

  1. a male given name, Umar, Omar
  2. (Islam) ʿUmar ibn al-Ḵaṭṭāb, recognized as the Islamic prophet's second rightly-guided successor in Sunni Islam

References

  • عمر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • عمر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu عمر (’umar).

Noun

عمر (’umar)

  1. life span, age
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