إجار

• IPA^(key): /ʔi.d͡ʒaːr/

Verbal noun of آجَرَ (ʔājara).

إِجَار • (ʔijār) m

1. verbal noun of آجَرَ (ʔājara) (form III)

From Aramaic אִיגָּרָא / ܐܶܓܳܪܳܐ (ʾeggārā, “roof”), developed from Imperial Aramaic 𐡀𐡂𐡓𐡀 (ʾgrʾ /⁠*ʾeggārā⁠/, “wall”), from Akkadian 𒂍𒋞 (igārum, “wall”), from Sumerian 𒂍𒋞 (e₂-gar₈ /⁠egar⁠/, “wall”).

• إِنْجَار (ʔinjār), إِجَّارَة (ʔijjāra)

إِجَّار • (ʔijjār) m (plural أَجَاجِير (ʔajājīr) or أَجَاجِرَة (ʔajājira))

1. (obsolete, Hijaz, Sicily) roof, flat top of a house
   • 7th century CE, Musnad Abū Bakr as-Siddīq, 1:3:

     أَنَا مَعَهُ حَتَّى قَدِمْنَا الْمَدِينَةَ فَتَلَقَّاهُ النَّاسُ فَخَرَجُوا فِي الطَّرِيقِ وَعَلَى الْأَجَاجِيرِ فَٱشْتَدَّ الْخَدَمُ وَٱلصِّبْيَانُ فِي ٱلطَّرِيقِ يَقُولُونَ ٱللّٰهُ أَكْبَرُ جَاءَ رَسُولُ ٱللّٰهِ صَلَّى ٱللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ جَاءَ مُحَمَّدٌ

     ʔanā maʕahū ḥattā qadimnā l-madīnata fatalaqqāhu n-nāsu faḵarajū fī ṭ-ṭarīqi waʕalā al-ʔajājīri faštadda l-ḵadamu waṣ-ṣibyānu fī ṭ-ṭarīqi yaqūlūna llāhu ʔakbaru jāʔa rasūlu llāhi ṣallā llāhu ʕalayhi wasallama jāʔa muḥammadun

     I was with him and we stepped upon Medina where he met upon people who went out onto the streets and onto the roofs and the servants and boys crowded the road saying “God is great, the Messenger of God (PBUH) has come, Muḥammad has come!”

• → Sicilian: anzara, anźara, anzaru, azzaru, aźara (“roof”)

• “إجار” in Almaany
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1880) De vocabulis in antiquis Arabum carminibus et in Corano peregrinis‎ (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 7
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 25
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “إجار”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 24b
• “ˀgr²”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “egar ”, in The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary‎, University of Pennsylvania, 2006