فور

• IPA^(key): /fawr/

فَوْر • (fawr) m

1. verbal noun of فَارَ (fāra) (form I)

• فَوْرًا (fawran, “instantly”)
• فَوْرِيّ (fawriyy, “instantaneous”)

Adverbial accusative of فَوْر (fawr).

• IPA^(key): /faw.ra/

فَوْرَ • (fawra)

1. immediately at, immediately after
   • 2017 October 29, “السلطات اللبنانية: تحرير ثلاثة مواطنين خطفوا في بغداد”, in Libya Akhbar‎, archived from the original on 29 October 2017:

     وخطف اللبنانيون الثلاثة وأحدهم رجل أعمال فور وصولهم الأحد الماضي إلى العاصمة العراقية.

     And the three Lebanese – one of them a man of business – have been kidnapped immediately after their arrival last Sunday at the Iraqi capital.

   • 1962, Ghassan Kanafani, رجال في الشمس [Men in the Sun]:

     كَانَ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يَعُودَ إِلَى ٱلْبَصْرَةِ فَوْرَ أَنْ يَسْتَرِدَّ صِحَّتَهُ، وَيَعُودَ إِلَيْهَا عَبْرَ ٱلصَّحْرَاءِ أَيْضًا إِذَا لَزِمَ ٱلْأَمْرُ

     kāna yurīdu ʔan yaʕūda ʔilā l-baṣrati fawra ʔan yastaridda ṣiḥḥatahu, wayaʕūda ʔilayhā ʕabra ṣ-ṣaḥrāʔi ʔayḍan ʔiḏā lazima l-ʔamru

     He wanted to go back to Basra as soon as he recovered, even if it meant going back through the desert.

From Arabic فَوَّرَ (fawwara).

• IPA^(key): /faw.war/

فور • (fawwar) II (non-past يفور (yfawwar))

1. to steam (to cook with steam)

Latin Porus from Greek Πορος (Poros).

فور • (Fur)

1. the rendition of the name of King Porus, who fought and defeated Alexander the Great in what is now Panjab, India.

From Arabic فَوَّرَ (fawwara).

• IPA^(key): /faw.war/,

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فوّر • (fawwar) II (present بفوّر (bifawwer))

1. (transitive) to boil (something liquid)

   Synonyms: غلى (ḡala), (solid) سلق (salaʔ)