See also: شعار

Arabic edit

Etymology edit

From the root س ع ر (s-ʕ-r). For the semantic extension, compare with German Heißhunger (literally, "hot-hunger").

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

سُعَار (suʕārm (uncountable)

  1. (of fire) fervency; rage
    Synonym: لَهِيب (lahīb)
    1. (of weather) torridness
      • a. 525, Aš-Šanfará, أقيموا بني أمي صدور مطيكم (first line)[1]:
        وَلَيْلَةِ نَحْسٍ يَصْطَلِيَ القَوْسَ رَبُّهَا … وَأَقْطُعَهُ ٱللَّاتِي بِهَا يَتَنَبَّلُ
        دَعَسْتُ عَلَى غَطَشٍ وَبَغْشٍ وَصُحْبَتِي … سُعَارٌ وَإِرْزِيزٌ وَوَجْرٌ وَأَفْكُلُ
        wa-laylati naḥsin yaṣṭaliya l-qawsa rabbu-hā … wa-ʔaqṭuʕa-hū l-lātī bi-hā yatanabbalu
        daʕastu ʕalā ḡaṭašin wabaḡšin wa-ṣuḥbatī … suʕārun wa-ʔirzīzun wa-wajrun wa-ʔafkulu
        And the ill-fated night when the master warmed up his bow, … and his arrowtips, in the handling of which he had trow
        I trod upon darkness and rain-shower and my following … was the heat of night and snowy hail and timid gulps and shivering
  2. rabies
    Synonym: كَلَب (kalab)
    1. (of a human or animal) frenziedness; madness; rabidity
      Synonym: جُنُون (junūn)
  3. the twinge or pang of hunger or thirst

Declension edit