قمار

Arabic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /qi.maːr/

Noun

قِمَار • (qimār) m

1. verbal noun of قَامَرَ (qāmara) (form III)
2. (uncountable) gambling

Declension

Declension of noun قِمَار (qimār)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قِمَار qimār	الْقِمَار al-qimār	قِمَار qimār
Nominative	قِمَارٌ qimārun	الْقِمَارُ al-qimāru	قِمَارُ qimāru
Accusative	قِمَارًا qimāran	الْقِمَارَ al-qimāra	قِمَارَ qimāra
Genitive	قِمَارٍ qimārin	الْقِمَارِ al-qimāri	قِمَارِ qimāri

Descendants

• Hijazi Arabic: قُمَار (gumār)
• → Azerbaijani: qumar
• → Persian: قمار
• → Armenian: ղումար (ġumar)
• → Georgian: ყომარი (q̇omari)
• → Kazakh: құмар (qūmar)
• → Kurdish:

  → Central Kurdish: قومار (qumar)

  → Northern Kurdish: qumar

• → Southern Kurdish: قومار (qumar)
• → Ottoman Turkish: قمار (see there for further descendants)
• → Uyghur: قىمار (qimar)

See also

• رِهَان (rihān)
• مَيْسِر (maysir)

Hijazi Arabic

Root
ق م ر
3 terms

Etymology

From Arabic قِمار (qimār).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡu.ˈmaːr/, [ɡʊ.ˈmaːr]

Noun

قمار • (gumār) m

1. gambling

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic قِمَار (qimār).

Noun

قمار • (qumar) (definitive accusative قماری (qumarı), plural قمارلر (qumarlar))

1. gambling

   Synonym: طالع اویونو (ṭaliʿ oyunu, “game of luck”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kumar (“gambling”, noun)

• Turkish: kumarbaz (“gambler”, noun)

• Turkish: kumarbazlık (“state of being a gambler”, noun)

• Turkish: kumarcı (“gambler”, noun)

• Turkish: kumarcılık (“state of being a gambler”, noun)

• → Bulgarian: комар (komar, “gambling”, noun)
• → Greek: κουμάρι (koumári, “gambling”, noun)
• ⇒ Greek: κουμαρτζής (koumartzís, “passionate gambler”, noun)
• → Macedonian: комар (komar, “gambling”, noun)

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قِمَار (qimār).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [qi.ˈmɑːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qɪ.mɑ́ːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qɪ.mɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [qɪ.mɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [qi.mɔ́ːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qe.mɒ́ːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [qi.mɔ́ɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	qimār
Dari reading?	qimār
Iranian reading?	ğemâr
Tajik reading?	qimor

Noun

Dari	قمار
Iranian Persian
Tajik	қимор

قمار • (qemâr)

1. gambling