نقر

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See also: نفر

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ن ق ر (n q r)
7 terms

Compare Latin fodere for semantical development.

Verb

نَقَرَ (naqara) I (non-past يَنْقُرُ (yanquru), verbal noun نَقْر (naqr))

  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), verbal noun تَنْقِير (tanqīr))

  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

نقر (form I)

  1. نَقِرُّ (naqirru) /na.qir.ru/: first-person plural non-past active indicative of قَرَّ (qarra)
  2. نَقِرَّ (naqirra) /na.qir.ra/: first-person plural non-past active subjunctive/jussive of قَرَّ (qarra)
  3. نَقِرِّ (naqirri) /na.qir.ri/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of قَرَّ (qarra)
  4. نَقَرُّ (naqarru) /na.qar.ru/: first-person plural non-past active indicative of قَرَّ (qarra)
  5. نَقَرَّ (naqarra) /na.qar.ra/: first-person plural non-past active subjunctive/jussive of قَرَّ (qarra)
  6. نَقَرِّ (naqarri) /na.qar.ri/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of قَرَّ (qarra)

Etymology 3

Verb

نقر (form IV)

  1. نُقِرُّ (nuqirru) /nu.qir.ru/: first-person plural non-past active indicative of أَقَرَّ (ʔaqarra)
  2. نُقَرُّ (nuqarru) /nu.qar.ru/: first-person plural non-past passive indicative of أَقَرَّ (ʔaqarra)
  3. نُقِرَّ (nuqirra) /nu.qir.ra/: first-person plural non-past active subjunctive/jussive of أَقَرَّ (ʔaqarra)
  4. نُقَرَّ (nuqarra) /nu.qar.ra/: first-person plural non-past passive subjunctive/jussive of أَقَرَّ (ʔaqarra)
  5. نُقِرِّ (nuqirri) /nu.qir.ri/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of أَقَرَّ (ʔaqarra)
  6. نُقَرِّ (nuqarri) /nu.qar.ri/: 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