ب ر ر

Arabic

Root

ب ر ر • (b-r-r)

1. related to keeping one’s stance

Derived terms

• Form I: بَرَّ (barra, “to be pious, to be reverent, to be respectful, to be kind, to be true, to be sincere”)
  • Verbal noun: بِرّ (birr)
  • Active participle: بَارّ (bārr)
  • Passive participle: مَبْرُور (mabrūr)
• Form II: بَرَّرَ (barrara, “to justify”)
  • Verbal noun: تَبْرِير (tabrīr)
  • Active participle: مُبَرِّر (mubarrir)
  • Passive participle: مُبَرَّر (mubarrar)
• Form III: بَارَّ (bārra, “to do good to”)
  • Verbal noun: مُبَارَّة (mubārra)
  • Active participle: مُبَارّ (mubārr)
  • Passive participle: مُبَارّ (mubārr)
• Form IV: أَبَرَّ (ʔabarra, “to perform, to execute, to confirm by fulfilment; to overcome, to be refractory and subdue, to surpass”)
  • Verbal noun: إِبْرَار (ʔibrār)
  • Active participle: مُبِرّ (mubirr)
  • Passive participle: مُبَرّ (mubarr)
• Form V: تَبَرَّرَ (tabarrara, “to endeavour to characterize oneself by piety”)
  • Verbal noun: تَبَرُّر (tabarrur)
  • Active participle: مُتَبَرِّر (mutabarrir)
• Form VI: تَبَارَّ (tabārra, “to do good to each other, to practise mutual kindness”)
  • Verbal noun: تَبَارّ (tabārr)
  • Active participle: مُتَبَارّ (mutabārr)

• مَبَرَّة f npers (mabarra, “good deed, charity”, noun)
• بَرّ m npers (barr, “dry land, outside”, noun)
• بَرَّة f npers (barra, “dry land, outside; obedience”, noun)
• بَرّ (barr, “pious, reverent, respectful, kind, true, sincere”, adjective)
• بَرِير (barīr, “pious, reverent, respectful, kind, true, sincere”, adjective)
• مُبَرِّرٌ m npers (mubarrirun, “justification”, noun)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ب ر ر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 61–62
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ب ر ر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 100–101
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ب ر 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^[3] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 103–104
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ب ر ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 175–177
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ب ر ر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 61
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ب ر ر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 75–76