نجر

See also: نجز, نخر, and ن ح ر

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ن ج ر (n-j-r)

Verb

نَجَرَ • (najara) I, non-past يَنْجُرُ‎ (yanjuru)

  1. to make hot, to heat
  2. to be hot, to be calid
  3. to make the نَجِيرَة (najīra) dish
Conjugation

Noun

نَجْر • (najr) m

  1. verbal noun of نَجَرَ (najara)
    1. heat
  2. origin, descent, root
  3. shape, form, figure
Declension

Noun

نَجَر • (najar) m

  1. thirst
Declension

Etymology 2

Denominal verb of نَجَّار (najjār, carpenter).

Verb

نَجَرَ • (najara) I, non-past يَنْجُرُ‎ (yanjuru)

  1. to hew, to plane, to hone
Conjugation

Verb

نَجَّرَ • (najjara) II, non-past يُنَجِّرُ‎ (yunajjiru)

  1. to hew, to plane, to hone
Conjugation

Noun

نَجْر • (najr) m

  1. verbal noun of نَجَرَ (najara)
Declension

Etymology 3

Seemingly a metathesis of جُرْن (jurn) – which is regionally also جِرْن (jirn) –, possibly motivated by the unrelated verb نَجَرَ (najara, to hew, to plane) since in a broad sense this is what one does with a mortar.

Noun

نِجْر • (nijr) m (plural نُجُور (nujūr))

  1. mortar (used with a pestle)
Declension

Verb

نَجُرْ • (najur) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of جَارَ (jāra)

Verb

نَجُرُّ • (najurru) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active indicative of جَرَّ (jarra)

Verb

نَجُرَّ • (najurra) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active subjunctive of جَرَّ (jarra)
  2. first-person plural non-past active jussive of جَرَّ (jarra)

Verb

نَجُرِّ • (najurri) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of جَرَّ (jarra)

Verb

نُجَرُّ • (nujarru) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past passive indicative of جَرَّ (jarra)

Verb

نُجَرَّ • (nujarra) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past passive subjunctive of جَرَّ (jarra)
  2. first-person plural non-past passive jussive of جَرَّ (jarra)

Verb

نُجَرِّ • (nujarri) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past passive jussive of جَرَّ (jarra)

Verb

نَجْرِ • (najri) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of جَرَى (jarā)

Verb

نُجِرْ • (nujir) (form IV)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of أَجَارَ (ʔajāra)

Verb

نُجَرْ • (nujar) (form IV)

  1. first-person plural non-past passive jussive of أَجَارَ (ʔajāra)

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “نجر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 641–642
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “نجر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 243
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “نجر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 1103
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “نجر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1108
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “نجر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1248
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