ش ح و ر

Arabic

Etymology

Seemingly augmentative to ح و ر (ḥ-w-r), but ش ح ر (š-ḥ-r) is the original.

Root

ش ح و ر • (š-ḥ-w-r)

1. related to soot

Declension

• Form Iq: شَحْوَرَ (šaḥwara, “to soot, to smut”)
  • Verbal noun: شَحْوَرَة (šaḥwara)
  • Active participle: مُشَحْوِر (mušaḥwir)
  • Passive participle: مُشَحْوَر (mušaḥwar)

• شَحْوَر (šaḥwar, “blackbird”)
• شُحْوَار (šuḥwār, “black earth; soot, grime”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ش ح و ر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 733
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ش ح و ر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 398
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ش ح و ر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 637