مزر

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Old South Arabian 𐩣𐩸𐩧 (mzr). Further origin unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mizr/

Noun

مِزْر • (mizr) m (uncountable)

1. any fermented drink from cereals: ale, beer, wine in the loose sense
   1. (particularly) ale (high fermentation beer)

Declension

Declension of noun مِزْر (mizr)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مِزْر mizr	الْمِزْر al-mizr	مِزْر mizr
Nominative	مِزْرٌ mizrun	الْمِزْرُ al-mizru	مِزْرُ mizru
Accusative	مِزْرًا mizran	الْمِزْرَ al-mizra	مِزْرَ mizra
Genitive	مِزْرٍ mizrin	الْمِزْرِ al-mizri	مِزْرِ mizri

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “مزر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 587
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “مزر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 174–175
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “مزر”, 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 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1099
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “مزر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2711
• Maraqten, Mohammed (1993) “Wine Drinking and Wine Prohibition in Arabia before Islam”, in Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, volume 23, page 98
• Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎^[5] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 57
• Weninger, Stefan (2009) “Der Jemen als lexikalisches Ausstrahlungszentrum in der Antike”, in Philologisches und Historisches zwischen Anatolien und Sokotra. Analecta Semitica in memoriam Alexander Sima‎^[6] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrasowitz, →ISBN, page 406 Nr. 17