تارة

Of a little-developed root. أَتَارَ (ʔatāra, “to repeat”, form IV) is clearly denominal, and about تَارَ (tāra, “to run, to flow (of blood)”) even the Classical Arabic lexicographers have had little to say other than that it is obsolete, and as the examples of آنَ (ʔāna), حَانَ (ḥāna), أَنَى (ʔanā) illustrate, the base stem too tends to be secondary in relation to a time word. In spite of طَوْر (ṭawr, “time”) not directly related to it but probably a borrowing from Aramaic, compare Jewish Literary Aramaic תּוּר (tōr, “to go around (a border)”),^[1] rather than cognate to Arabic ث و ر (ṯ-w-r) or د و ر (d-w-r) (whence Arabic دَوْرَة (dawra, “period”))^[2] denominal from תּוֹרָא (tōrā, “line, row; cord, band”), which means this word is the same word as تُرّ (turr, “plumb line”), figurative uses from drawing a line forth and back as times pass—compare also تَوّ (taww, “a knot; an instance”). Exactly the meanings are found in Hebrew תּוֹר (tōr, “queue, line; turn; appointment; period”).^[3]

• IPA^(key): /taː.ra/

تَارَة • (tāra) f (plural تَارَات (tārāt))

1. (usually used adverbially) a time

   Synonym: مَرَّة (marra)

• “تارة” in Almaany
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “تارة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 322b–c where there are also suspicious vacillations about the original form of the word.

Adverbial accusative of تَارَة (tāra, “time”).

• IPA^(key): /taː.ra.tan/

تَارَةً • (tāratan)

1. sometimes, once, at times