ء م ر

Arabic

Etymology

Cognate with Hebrew א־מ־ר (ʾ-m-r).

Root

ء م ر • (ʔ-m-r)

1. related to commanding or instructing

Derived terms

Verbs and verb derivatives

• Form I: أَمَرَ (ʔamara)
  • Verbal noun: أَمْر (ʔamr)
  • Active participle: آمِر (ʔāmir)
  • Passive participle: مَأْمُور (maʔmūr)
• Form I: أَمَرَ (ʔamara)
  • Verbal noun: أَمْر (ʔamr), إِمَارَة (ʔimāra), إِمْرَة (ʔimra)
  • Active participle: آمِر (ʔāmir)
  • Passive participle: مَأْمُور (maʔmūr)
• Form I: أَمُرَ (ʔamura)
  • Verbal noun: أَمَارَة (ʔamāra)
  • Active participle: آمِر (ʔāmir)
• Form I: أَمِرَ (ʔamira)
  • Verbal noun: أَمْرٌ (ʔamrun), أَمَرةٌ (ʔamaratun), إمَارَةٌ (ʔimāratun)
  • Active participle: آمِر (ʔāmir)
  • Passive participle: مَأْمُور (maʔmūr)
• Form II: أَمَّرَ (ʔammara)
  • Verbal noun: تَأْمِير (taʔmīr)
  • Active participle: مُؤَمِّر (muʔammir)
  • Passive participle: مُؤَمَّر (muʔammar)
• Form III: آمَرَ (ʔāmara)
  • Verbal noun: مُؤَامَرَة (muʔāmara), إِمَار (ʔimār)
  • Active participle: مُؤَامِر (muʔāmir)
  • Passive participle: مُؤَامَر (muʔāmar)
• Form IV: آمَرَ (ʔāmara)
  • Verbal noun: إِيمَار (ʔīmār)
  • Active participle: مُؤْمِر (muʔmir)
  • Passive participle: مُؤْمَر (muʔmar)
• Form V: تَأَمَّرَ (taʔammara)
  • Verbal noun: تَأَمُّر (taʔammur)
  • Active participle: مُتَأَمِّر (mutaʔammir)
  • Passive participle: مُتَأَمَّر (mutaʔammar)
• Form VI: تَآمَرَ (taʔāmara)
  • Verbal noun: تَآمُر (taʔāmur)
  • Active participle: مُتَآمِر (mutaʔāmir)
  • Passive participle: مُتَآمَر (mutaʔāmar)
• Form VIII: اِئْتَمَرَ (iʔtamara), اِيتَمَرَ (ītamara)
  • Verbal noun: اِئْتِمَار (iʔtimār), اِيتِمَار (ītimār)
  • Active participle: مُؤْتَمِر (muʔtamir)
  • Passive participle: مُؤْتَمَر (muʔtamar)
• Form X: اِسْتَأْمَرَ (istaʔmara)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِئْمَار (istiʔmār)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَأْمِر (mustaʔmir)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَأْمَر (mustaʔmar)

Nouns

• أَمِير (ʔamīr)
  • أَمِيرَة (ʔamīra)
  • أَمِيرِيّ (ʔamīriyy)
• إمْرَة (ʔimra, “command, power”)
• إِمَارَة (ʔimāra, “the state of someone being a commander (أَمِير (ʔamīr))”)
• أَمَّار (ʔammār, “always demanding, wont to command”)
• تَأْمُور (taʔmūr, “soul; pericardium”)
• إِمْر (ʔimr, “afflictive”)
• مِئْمَر (miʔmar, “counsel, advice”)
• أَمَر (ʔamar, “stones”)
• أَمَار (ʔamār) and أَمَارَة (ʔamāra, “a mark to show the way; sign”)
• تُؤْمُور (tuʔmūr, “a sign of piled stones to show the way in the desert”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ء م ر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 58a–59b
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ء م ر”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 53a–55b
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ء م ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 95b–99a
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ء م ر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, pages 76b–77a
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “امر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 33a–34b