فطرة

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See also: قطرة

Arabic

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ge'ez ፍጥረት (fəṭrät, creation; nature, disposition) together with فَطَرَ (faṭara, to create) from ፈጠረ (fäṭärä, to create; to inscribe, to carve), unless – which cannot be excluded –, independently shaped from the borrowed verb, which is however unlikely considering the semantic and morphic parallelism.

Noun

فِطْرَة (fiṭraf (plural فِطَر (fiṭar))

  1. creation
  2. nature, disposition, constitution, temperament, instinct
Declension
Descendants

Etymology 2

Adverbial accusative of فِطْرَة (fiṭra).

Adverb

فِطْرَةً (fiṭratan)

  1. by nature

Etymology 3

Singulative noun of فُطْر (fuṭr, fungus, mushroom). Compare Hebrew פִּטְרִיָּה (pitriyá).

Noun

فُطْرَة (fuṭraf (singulative, collective فُطْر m (fuṭr))

  1. fungus, mushroom
Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “فطرة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 357
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 49
  • Schwally, Friedrich (1899) “Lexikalische Studien. (Fortsetzung.)”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 53, page 201
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “فطرة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN