عبر

From the root ع ب ر (ʕ-b-r). Compare Hebrew עָבַר (ʿāḇar, “to cross”), Old South Arabian 𐩲𐩨𐩧 (ʿbr, “to transgress”), Akkadian 𒁄 (ebēru, “to cross”).

عَبَرَ • (ʕabara) I (non-past يَعْبُرُ (yaʕburu), verbal noun عَبْر (ʕabr) or عُبُور (ʕubūr))

1. to cross, to traverse
2. to ford
3. to swim (something)
4. to pass over

عَبَرَ • (ʕabara) I (non-past يَعْبُرُ (yaʕburu), verbal noun عَبْر (ʕabr) or عِبَارَة (ʕibāra))

1. (transitive) to interpret
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 12:43:

     يَا أَيُّهَا ٱلْمَلَأُ أَفْتُونِي فِي رُؤْيَايَ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ لِلرُّؤْيَا تَعْبُرُونَ

     yā ʔayyuhā l-malaʔu ʔaftūnī fī ruʔyāya ʔin kuntum li-r-ruʔyā taʕburūna

     O people give me your opinion about my vision if you can see through it!

عَبْر • (ʕabr) m

1. verbal noun of عَبَرَ (ʕabara) (form I)

Adverbial accusative of عَبْر (ʕabr, “crossing”). Compare Old South Arabian 𐩲𐩨𐩧 (ʿbr, “towards”).

عَبْرَ • (ʕabra)

1. across

From the root ع ب ر (ʕ-b-r) and in the meanings of explaining, interpreting, expressing a semantic loan from Middle Persian (wtltn' /⁠widārdan⁠/, “to cause to pass”) = Classical Persian گذاردن (guḏārdan, “to cause to pass; to clean, to purge; to put, to place”), (wcʾltn' /⁠wizārdan⁠/, “to separate; to explain, to interpret, to express”) = گزاردن (gozârdan, “to cause to pass; to draw the outline of a picture; to express”).

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عَبَّرَ • (ʕabbara) II (non-past يُعَبِّرُ (yuʕabbiru), verbal noun تَعْبِير (taʕbīr))

1. (ditransitive) to get across
   1. (obsolete, literally) to make cross, to cause to pass over, to convey across
   2. (transferred) to express, to put into terms
2. (transitive) to interpret

• “ebēru”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎, volume 4, E, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1958, page 10
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1898) “Zum sporadischen Lautwandel in den semitischen Sprachen”, in Beiträge zur Assyriologie und semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎ (in German), volume 3, pages 69–70

From Arabic عَبَّرَ (ʕabbara).

• IPA^(key): /ʕab.bar/,

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عبّر • (ʕabbar) II (present بعبّر (biʕabber))

1. to express
2. to consider, to care about