تمر

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See also: ثمر

Arabic

تَمْر

Etymology 1

As a widely cultivated plant, the native distribution of the date-palm even in earlier antiquity is questionable. Particular terms relating to date culture, like شِيص (šīṣ, unfecundated dates), قَسْب (qasb, dried dates), and كَافُور (kāfūr, bract of the inflorescence of the date palm) can be borrowed. Assuming that ثَمَر (ṯamar, fruits), and Old South Arabian 𐩻𐩣𐩧 (ṯmr /⁠ṯamar⁠/, fruits), is the same word generalized from an original meaning “dates”, the present word تَمْر (tamr) and Old South Arabian 𐩩𐩣𐩧 (tmr /⁠tamr⁠/, dates) are declared, together with Hebrew תָּמָר (tāmār), reborrowed from Aramaic תמרא / ܬܡܪܐ (tamrē, dates), in which language only Proto-Semitic *ṯ /θ/ becomes t /t/, and the vowel a is reduced to ə and then in such position.

Noun

تَمْر (tamrm (collective, singulative تَمْرَة f (tamra), plural تُمُور (tumūr))

  1. date (fruit)
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants

References

  • Barton, George Aaron (1902) A sketch of Semitic origins, social and religious, New York and London: The Macmillan Company, page 76
  • Fischer, Theobald (1881) Die Dattelpalme. Ihre geographische Verbreitung und culturhistorische Bedeutung (in German), Gotha: Justus Perthes Verlag
  • Guidi, Ignazio (1879) Della sede primitiva dei popoli semitici (in Italian), Rome: Tipi del Salviucci, pages 21–22
  • Kogan, Leonid (2011) “Proto-Semitic Lexicon”, in Weninger, Stefan, editor, The Semitic Languages. An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft – Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science; 36), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 204
  • Leslau, Wolf (1991) “tamr ተምር”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 576
  • Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 316
  • Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 528
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1875) Mandäische Grammatik (in German), Halle: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, page 107

Etymology 2

Verb

تَمُرُّ (tamurru) (form I)

  1. second-person masculine singular non-past active indicative of مَرَّ (marra)
  2. third-person feminine singular non-past active indicative of مَرَّ (marra)

Verb

تَمُرَّ (tamurra) (form I)

  1. second-person masculine singular non-past active subjunctive of مَرَّ (marra)
  2. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive of مَرَّ (marra)
  3. third-person feminine singular non-past active subjunctive of مَرَّ (marra)
  4. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive of مَرَّ (marra)

Verb

تَمُرِّ (tamurri) (form I)

  1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive of مَرَّ (marra)
  2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive of مَرَّ (marra)

Malay

Noun

تمر (plural تمر-تمر or تمر۲, informal 1st possessive تمرکو, 2nd possessive تمرمو, 3rd possessive تمرڽ)

  1. Jawi spelling of tamar

Persian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Turkic. Compare Azerbaijani dəmir, Crimean Tatar temir, Tatar timer, Turkish demir.

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? tamur
Dari reading? tamur
Iranian reading? tamor
Tajik reading? tamur

Noun

تمر (tamor)

  1. iron
    Synonym: آهن (âhan)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic تَمْر (tamr).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? tamr
Dari reading? tamr
Iranian reading? tamr
Tajik reading? tamr

Noun

تمر (tamr)

  1. date; dried date
    Synonym: خرما (xormâ)
  2. tamarind

Etymology 3

Cognate with Sanskrit तिमिर (timira, dark, gloomy; darkness).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? timir
Dari reading? timir
Iranian reading? temer
Tajik reading? timir

Noun

تمر (temer)

  1. darkness

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic تَمْر (tamr).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tamr/,
  • Audio (Bethlehem):(file)

Noun

تمر (tamrm (collective, singulative تمرة f (tamra))

  1. (uncountable) dried dates

Derived terms

  • بلح (balaḥ, fresh dates)
  • عجوة (ʕajwe, pressed dates)