نقر

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ن ق ر (n-q-r)

Compare Latin fodere for semantical development.

Verb

نَقَرَ (naqara) I, non-past يَنْقُرُ‎ (yanquru)

  1. to strike, to knock, to hack, to dig into, to tap, to peck
    1. literally
    2. so as investigating, to dig into, to tap
    3. so as making a certain sound, to click (also on the computer), to knock, to thump, pluck (a drum as well as a string instrument)
      • a. 1160, ابن قزمان [Ibn Quzmān], edited by James T. Monroe, The Mischievous Muse: Extant Poetry and Prose by Ibn Quzmān of Córdoba (Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures; 39), Leiden, Boston: Brill, published 2016, →ISBN, Zajals from the Dīwān, 72, 3, pages 434–435:
        جِلَّوْز عَيْن الثَّوْر
        شَيْئًا مَلْهَوِيّ
        يَنْقُر لَك فَالْبَاب
        نَقْرً مُسْتَوِيّ
        يَصَّدَّع رَأْسَك
        فَذَاك الدَوِيّ
        وَرِزْق الْجِلَّوْز
        فَذَاك الصُّدَاع
        jillawz ʕayn aṯ-ṯawr
        šayʔan malhawiyy
        yanqur lak fālbāb
        naqran mustawiyy
        yaṣṣaddaʕ raʔsak
        faḏāk ad-dawiyy
        warizq al-jillawz
        faḏāk aṣ-ṣudāʕ
        Filberts and prunes
        are frolic forsooth!
        Your door is pinged
        to have them slinged,
        stopless din and ballyhoo!
        Each cobnut wreaks you grue!
    4. so as offending a person, to injure, to bully
Conjugation

Verb

نَقَّرَ (naqqara) II, non-past يُنَقِّرُ‎ (yunaqqiru)

  1. to dig into, to peck, to stipple, to pit
Conjugation

Noun

نَقْر (naqrm

  1. verbal noun of نَقَرَ (naqara) (form I)
Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

نَقَرُّ (naqarru) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active indicative of قَرَّ (qarra)

Verb

نَقَرَّ (naqarra) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active subjunctive of قَرَّ (qarra)
  2. first-person plural non-past active jussive of قَرَّ (qarra)

Verb

نَقَرِّ (naqarri) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of قَرَّ (qarra)

Verb

نَقِرُّ (naqirru) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active indicative of قَرَّ (qarra)

Verb

نَقِرَّ (naqirra) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active subjunctive of قَرَّ (qarra)
  2. first-person plural non-past active jussive of قَرَّ (qarra)

Verb

نَقِرِّ (naqirri) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of قَرَّ (qarra)

Verb

نَقُرُّ (naqurru) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active indicative of قَرَّ (qarra)

Verb

نَقُرَّ (naqurra) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active subjunctive of قَرَّ (qarra)
  2. first-person plural non-past active jussive of قَرَّ (qarra)

Verb

نَقُرِّ (naqurri) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of قَرَّ (qarra)

Etymology 3

Verb

نُقِرُّ (nuqirru) (form IV)

  1. first-person plural non-past active indicative of أَقَرَّ (ʔaqarra)

Verb

نُقِرَّ (nuqirra) (form IV)

  1. first-person plural non-past active subjunctive of أَقَرَّ (ʔaqarra)
  2. first-person plural non-past active jussive of أَقَرَّ (ʔaqarra)

Verb

نُقِرِّ (nuqirri) (form IV)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of أَقَرَّ (ʔaqarra)

Verb

نُقَرُّ (nuqarru) (form IV)

  1. first-person plural non-past passive indicative of أَقَرَّ (ʔaqarra)

Verb

نُقَرَّ (nuqarra) (form IV)

  1. first-person plural non-past passive subjunctive of أَقَرَّ (ʔaqarra)

Verb

نُقَرِّ (nuqarri) (form IV)

  1. first-person plural non-past passive jussive of أَقَرَّ (ʔaqarra)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic نَقْر (naqr), verbal noun of نَقَرَ (naqara).

Noun

نقر (nakr)

  1. sculpture, carving
  2. striking, beating; knocking
  3. blaming
  4. pecking (striking with a bird's beak)

Further reading

  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “nakr”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نقر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1283b