ء ب ر

Arabic

Root

ء ب ر • (ʔ-b-r)

1. related to pinching, pricking

Derived terms

Verbs

• Form I: أَبَرَ (ʔabara, “to pinch, to prick”)
  • Active participle: آبِر (ʔābir)
  • Passive participle: مَأْبُور (maʔbūr)
• Form II: أَبَّرَ (ʔabbara, “to fecundate, to pollinate”)
  • Verbal noun: تَأْبِير (taʔbīr)
  • Active participle: مُؤَبِّر (muʔabbir)
  • Passive participle: مُؤَبَّر (muʔabbar)
• Form V: تَأَبَّرَ (taʔabbara, “to let oneself be fecundated”)
  • Verbal noun: تَأَبُّر (taʔabbur)
  • Active participle: مُتَأَبِّر (mutaʔabbir)
• Form VIII: اِئْتَبَرَ (iʔtabara), اِيتَبَرَ (ītabara)
  • Verbal noun: اِئْتِبَار (iʔtibār), اِيتِبَار (ītibār)
  • Active participle: مُؤْتَبِر (muʔtabir)
  • Passive participle: مُؤْتَبَر (muʔtabar)

Nouns

• إِبْرَة f (ʔibra, “needle”); pl. إِبَر (ʔibar)
• مِئْبَر m (miʔbar, “packing needle; needlecase; anther”); pl. مَآبِر (maʔābir)
• أَبّار m (ʔabbār, “needle-maker”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ء ب ر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 3
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ء ب 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^[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 3–4
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ء ب ر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 2