حمر

Causative to أَحْمَر (ʔaḥmar, “red”).

• IPA^(key): /ħam.ma.ra/

حَمَّرَ • (ḥammara) II (non-past يُحَمِّرُ (yuḥammiru), verbal noun تَحْمِير (taḥmīr))

1. to redden, to color or dye red
2. to roast
3. to fry
4. to brown (as by cooking or baking)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

حُمْر • (ḥumr) pl

1. animate/inanimate masculine/feminine plural of أَحْمَر (ʔaḥmar, “red”)

 أسفلت on Arabic Wikipedia

From Aramaic חֵימָרָא (ḥēmārā) from the root ח־מ־ר (ḥ-m-r) related to “becoming stringent”, “hardening”, “congealing”.

حُمَر • (ḥumar) m

1. bitumen, asphalt

• حُمَرِيّ (ḥumariyy)

 Tamarindus indica on Arabic Wikipedia

From أَحْمَر (ʔaḥmar, “red”) for the red colour of the fruits.

• حَوْمَر (ḥawmar)

حُمَر or حُمُر • (ḥumar or ḥumur) m (collective, singulative حُمَرَة f (ḥumara) or حُمُرَة (ḥumura))

2. tamarind
   1. fruit of the tamarind-tree
   2. tamarind-tree (Tamarindus indica), the only species in Tamarindus

• → Amharic: ሃሞር (hamor)
• → Ge'ez: ሖመር (ḥomär), ሐሞር (ḥämor), ሐመር (ḥämär), ኆመር (ḫomär)
• → Saho: homar
• → Somali: homar, hamar
• → Tigre: ሖመር (ḥomär), ኆመር (ḫomär)
• → Tigrinya: ሖመር (ḥomär), ሕሞር (ḥəmor), ሑሞር (ḥumor), ሕምር (ḥəmər), ሃመር (hamär), ሆመር (homär), ህሞር (həmor)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

حُمُر • (ḥumur) m pl

1. plural of حِمَار (ḥimār)

• “ḥymr”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “ḥmr”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 151
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “حمر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 424
• Landberg, Carlo, editor (1920), Glossaire daṯînois‎ (in French), Leiden: Brill, page 482
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “حمر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 640
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “حمر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 239

حمر • (ḥumr)

1. plural of أحمر

From Arabic أَحْمَر (ʔaḥmar).

• IPA^(key): /ħmar/

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حمر • (ḥmar) (feminine حمرا (ḥamra), common plural حومر (ḥūmer), masculine plural حمرين (ḥamrīn), feminine plural حمرات (ḥamrāt), elative أحمر (ʔaḥmar) or حمر (ḥmar))

1. red