سطر

From Old South Arabian 𐩪𐩷𐩧 (s¹ṭr, “to inscribe; writing, inscription, document, line”) from Classical Syriac ܣܛܰܪ (sṭar, “to cut, to mark, to carve, to write down”) from Akkadian 𒊬 (šaṭārum, “to write, to inscribe, to jot down”). The root س ط ر (s-ṭ-r) is derived from this borrowing.

سَطَرَ • (saṭara) I (non-past يَسْطُرُ (yasṭuru), verbal noun سَطْر (saṭr))

1. to write

سَطَّرَ • (saṭṭara) II (non-past يُسَطِّرُ (yusaṭṭiru), verbal noun تَسْطِير (tasṭīr))

1. to draw lines into, to rule

سَطْر • (saṭr) m (plural سُطُور (suṭūr) or أَسْطُر (ʔasṭur) or أَسْطَار (ʔasṭār))

1. verbal noun of سَطَرَ (saṭara) (form I)
2. line, row
3. line of writing
4. stroke

• Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 169–170
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 250
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• Müller, David Heinrich (1887) “Arabisch-aramäische Glossen”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes‎ (in German), volume 1, page 29
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Borrowed from Arabic سَطْر (saṭr).

سطر • (satr) (plural سطرها (satr-hâ) or سطور (sotur))

1. row, line

   Synonym: خط (xatt)

   Coordinate term: ستون (sotun)