نجر

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See also: نجز, نخر, and ن ح ر

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ن ج ر (n-j-r)

Verb

نَجَرَ (najara) I, non-past يَنْجُرُ‎ (yanjuru)

  1. to make hot, to heat
  2. to be hot, to be calid
  3. to make the نَجِيرَة (najīra) dish
Conjugation

Noun

نَجْر (najrm

  1. verbal noun of نَجَرَ (najara)
    1. heat
  2. origin, descent, root
  3. shape, form, figure
Declension

Noun

نَجَر (najarm

  1. thirst
Declension

Etymology 2

Denominal verb of نَجَّار (najjār, carpenter).

Verb

نَجَرَ (najara) I, non-past يَنْجُرُ‎ (yanjuru)

  1. to hew, to plane, to hone
Conjugation

Verb

نَجَّرَ (najjara) II, non-past يُنَجِّرُ‎ (yunajjiru)

  1. to hew, to plane, to hone
Conjugation

Noun

نَجْر (najrm

  1. verbal noun of نَجَرَ (najara)
Declension

Etymology 3

Seemingly a metathesis of جُرْن (jurn) – which is regionally also جِرْن (jirn) –, possibly motivated by the unrelated verb نَجَرَ (najara, to hew, to plane) since in a broad sense this is what one does with a mortar.

Noun

نِجْر (nijrm (plural نُجُور (nujūr))

  1. mortar (used with a pestle)
Declension

Etymology 4

Verb

نَجُرْ (najur) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of جَارَ (jāra)

Etymology 5

Verb

نَجُرُّ (najurru) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active indicative of جَرَّ (jarra)

Verb

نَجُرَّ (najurra) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active subjunctive of جَرَّ (jarra)
  2. first-person plural non-past active jussive of جَرَّ (jarra)

Verb

نَجُرِّ (najurri) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of جَرَّ (jarra)

Verb

نُجَرُّ (nujarru) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past passive indicative of جَرَّ (jarra)

Verb

نُجَرَّ (nujarra) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past passive subjunctive of جَرَّ (jarra)
  2. first-person plural non-past passive jussive of جَرَّ (jarra)

Verb

نُجَرِّ (nujarri) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past passive jussive of جَرَّ (jarra)

Etymology 6

Verb

نَجْرِ (najri) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of جَرَى (jarā)

Etymology 7

Verb

نُجِرْ (nujir) (form IV)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of أَجَارَ (ʔajāra)

Verb

نُجَرْ (nujar) (form IV)

  1. first-person plural non-past passive jussive of أَجَارَ (ʔajāra)

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “نجر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 641–642
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “نجر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 243
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “نجر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 1103
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “نجر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1108
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “نجر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1248