دهر

دَهَرَ • (dahara) I (non-past يَدْهَرُ (yadharu), verbal noun دَهْر (dahr))

1. to overcome, to conquer, to subdue, to overpower, to master, to gain the mastery over, to prevail, to predominate over, to surpass

دَهْر • (dahr) m (plural دُهُور (duhūr) or أَدْهُر (ʔadhur))

1. verbal noun of دَهَرَ (dahara) (form I)
2. the course of time, fate
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 45:24:

     وَقَالُوا۟ مَا هِيَ إِلَّا حَيَاتُنَا ٱلدُّنۡيَا نَمُوتُ وَنَحۡيَا وَمَا يُهۡلِكُنَاۤ إِلَّا ٱلدَّهۡرُ ۚ وَمَا لَهُم بِذَ ٰ⁠لِكَ مِنۡ عِلۡمٍ ۖ إِنۡ هُمۡ إِلَّا يَظُنُّونَ

     waqālū mā hiya ʔillā ḥayātunā d-dunyā namūtu wanaḥyā wamā yuhlikunā ʔillā d-dahru wamā lahum biḏālika min ʕilmin ʔin hum ʔillā yaẓunnūna

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   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 76:1:

     هَلْ أَتَىٰ عَلَى الْإِنْسَانِ حِينٌ مِنَ الدَّهْرِ لَمْ يَكُن شَيْئًا مَّذْكُورًا

     hal ʔatā ʕalā l-ʔinsāni ḥīnun mina ad-dahri lam yakun šayʔan maḏkūran

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   • a. 815, Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī:

     عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ يُؤْذِينِي ابْنُ آدَمَ يَسُبُّ الدَّهْرَ وَأَنَا الدَّهْرُ بِيَدِي الْأَمْرُ أُقَلِّبُ اللَّيْلَ وَالنَّهَار

     Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Allah Almighty said: The son of Adam abuses me. He curses time and I am time, for in my hand are the night and day.”

   • a. 1374, Ibn al-Khatib, Jadaka al-Ghaithu:

     إِذْ يَقُودُ ٱلدَّهْرُ أَشْتَاتَ ٱلْمُنَى
     تَنْقُلُ ٱلْخَطْوَ عَلَى مَا يُرْسَمُ

     ʔiḏ yaqūdu d-dahru ʔaštāta l-munā
     tanqulu l-ḵaṭwa ʕalā mā yursamu

     then the course or time would lead the pieces of wishes
     so that they go the way they are supposed to

• دَهْرِيّ (dahriyy, “who does not believe in the hereafter, atheist”)
• أَكَلَ عَلَيْهِ الدَّهْرُ وَشَرِبَ (ʔakala ʕalayhi d-dahru wašariba)

• “دهر” in Almaany
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “دهر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 63
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “دهر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 923
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “دهر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 408