زير

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See also: زیر and ریز

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ز و ر (z-w-r)

Noun

زِير (zīrm (plural أَزْوَار (ʔazwār))

  1. women’s visitor, philanderer, womanizer
    • 2015 May 21, “ar: «غوبلز» زير النساء «الشهواني» ... وجه آخر لوزير دعاية هتلر”, in Ar-Rāy:
      والآن، وبفضل سيرة حياتية جديدة، أصبح باستطاعتنا أن نرى جانبا آخر من جوانب شخصية جوزيف غوبلز وهي السيرة التي لا تكشف فقط كيف كان مهووساً بهتلر إلى درجة الجنون، ولكنها تتناول أيضا للمرة الأولى تفاصيل حياته الشخصية المنحرفة كما أنها تسلط الضوء على دوره غير المتوقع كـ«كازانوفا» وكـ«زير نساء» نازي.
      Now, thanks to a new biography, it has become possible for us to see an other side of the personality of Joseph Goebbels, and the biography does not only show how fanatical he was into Hitler up to the point of insanity, but it also treats for the first time the details of his perverted private life as it sheds light on his unexpected role as “Casanova” and Nazi “women visitor”.
Declension

Etymology 2

From Coptic ⲥⲓⲣ (sir).

Noun

زِير (zīrm (plural أَزْيَار (ʔazyār) or زِيَار (ziyār))

  1. cask, tub, vat, large jug
Declension
Descendants
  • Maltese: żir
  • English: zir
  • Italian: ziro

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

زِيرَ (zīra) (form I)

  1. third-person masculine singular past passive of زَارَ (zāra)

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “زير”, 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 265
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “زير”, 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 270
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “زير”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1269
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “زير”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1276–1277
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “زير”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 535
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “زير”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 541
  • Vollers, Karl (1896) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 50, page 631