ن ج ر

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root

ن ج ر • (n-j-r)

1. related to heat

Derived terms

• Form I: نَجَرَ (najara, “to heat; to be hot”)
  • Verbal noun: نَجْر (najr)
  • Active participle: نَاجِر (nājir)
  • Passive participle: مَنْجُور (manjūr)
• Form IV: أَنْجَرَ (ʔanjara, “to propose the dish نَجِيرَة (najīra) to”)
  • Verbal noun: إِنْجَار (ʔinjār)
  • Active participle: مُنْجِر (munjir)
  • Passive participle: مُنْجَر (munjar)

• نَجْر (najr, “heat; violent thirst”)
• نَجْرَان (najrān, “thirsty”)
• نَجِيرَة (najīra, “heating stone; milk mixed with butter or starch”)
• مِنْجَرَة (minjara, “heating stone”)
• أَنْجَرَة (ʔanjara, “nettle”)

Etymology 2

Denominal from the loanword نَجَّار (najjār, “carpenter”).

Root

ن ج ر • (n-j-r)

1. related to carpentry

Derived terms

• Form I: نَجَرَ (najara, “to hew, to plane”)
  • Active participle: نَاجِر (nājir)
  • Passive participle: مَنْجُور (manjūr)
• Form II: نَجَّرَ (najjara, “to hew, to plane”)
  • Verbal noun: تَنْجِير (tanjīr)
  • Active participle: مُنَجِّر (munajjir)
  • Passive participle: مُنَجَّر (munajjar)

• نَجَّار (najjār, “carpenter”)
• مِنْجَرَة (minjara, “carpenter’s plane”)
• نِجَارَة (nijāra, “carpentry”)
• نُجَارَة (nujāra, “what is planed off wood”)

Etymology 3

Unclear if from senses of heat, since heat is what moves and spawns everything, or from carpenters making door-sills, or metathesized from رِجْل (rijl, “foot”), considering that Aramaic נִגְרָא / נִיגְרָא / ܢܓܪܐ (niḡra) is such a metathesis having both the literal sense of a foot and transferred senses, or even Late Middle Persian equalling Classical Persian نژاد (nižād, “lineage, root, origin”).

Root

ن ج ر • (n-j-r)

1. related to spawning shapes, stock, sill, root

Derived terms

• نَجْر (najr, “form, shape; root, origin, stock”)
• نَجْرَان (najrān, “door-sill”)
• نُجَار (nujār, “root, origin, stock”)

Etymology 4

Metathesis of جُرْن (jurn, “mortar”), possibly influenced by the sense of carpentry since one hews in a mortar.

Root

ن ج ر • (n-j-r)

1. related to mortars

Derived terms

• نِجْر (nijr, “mortar”)

References

• Asbaghi, Asya (1988) Persische Lehnwörter im Arabischen‎^[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 258
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ن ج ر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[2] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 641–642
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ن ج ر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[3] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 243–244
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ن ج ر”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[4] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1202–1203
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ن ج ر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[5], London: W.H. Allen, page 1103
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ن ج ر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1108
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ن ج ر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[6] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1248–1249
• “ngr⁶”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–