غ و ر

Arabic

Root

غ و ر • (ḡ-w-r)

1. related to falling into something

Derived terms

Verbs

• Form I: غَارَ (ḡāra, “to enter deeply; to fall in; to seep away”)
  • Verbal noun: غَوْر (ḡawr)
  • Active participle: غَائِر (ḡāʔir)
  • Passive participle: مَغُور (maḡūr)
• Form II: غَوَّرَ (ḡawwara)
  • Verbal noun: تَغْوِير (taḡwīr)
  • Active participle: مُغَوِّر (muḡawwir)
  • Passive participle: مُغَوَّر (muḡawwar)
• Form III: غَاوَرَ (ḡāwara, “to raid”)
  • Verbal noun: مُغَاوَرَة (muḡāwara), غِوَار (ḡiwār)
  • Active participle: مُغَاوِر (muḡāwir)
  • Passive participle: مُغَاوَر (muḡāwar)
• Form IV: أَغَارَ (ʔaḡāra, “to make sink; to raid”)
  • Verbal noun: إِغَارَة (ʔiḡāra)
  • Active participle: مُغِير (muḡīr)
  • Passive participle: مُغَار (muḡār)
• Form V: تَغَوَّرَ (taḡawwara, “to go into more depressed terrain”)
  • Verbal noun: تَغَوُّر (taḡawwur)
  • Active participle: مُتَغَوِّر (mutaḡawwir)
• Form VI: تَغَاوَرَ (taḡāwara, “to raid each other”)
  • Verbal noun: تَغَاوُر (taḡāwur)
  • Active participle: مُتَغَاوِر (mutaḡāwir)
  • Passive participle: مُتَغَاوَر (mutaḡāwar)
• Form VIII: اِغْتَارَ (iḡtāra, “to obtain advantage from”)
  • Verbal noun: اِغْتِيَار (iḡtiyār)
  • Active participle: مُغْتَار (muḡtār)
  • Passive participle: مُغْتَار (muḡtār)
• Form X: اِسْتَغَارَ (istaḡāra, “to desire to descend into; to ask, to beg”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِغَارَة (istiḡāra)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَغِير (mustaḡīr)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَغَار (mustaḡār)

Nouns and adjectives

• غَوْر (ḡawr, “ground”); pl. أَغْوَار (ʔaḡwār)
• غَار (ḡār, “cavern; palate”); pl. أَغْوَار (ʔaḡwār) and غِيرَان (ḡīrān)
  • غَارِيّ (ḡāriyy, “palatal”)
• غَارَة (ḡāra, “raid”)
• مَغَار (maḡār), مَغَارَة (maḡāra, “grotto”); pl. مَغَاوِر (maḡāwir), مَغَايِر (maḡāyir)
• مِغْوَار (miḡwār, “dauntless”); pl. مَغَاوِير (maḡāwīr)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1835) “غ و ر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 301–302
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “غ و ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[2], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2306–2308
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “غ و ر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 804–805
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “غ و ر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 931