See also: نجز, نخر, and ن ح ر

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Etymology 1 edit

From the root ن ج ر (n-j-r).

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نَجَرَ (najara) I, non-past يَنْجُرُ‎ (yanjuru)

  1. to make hot, to heat
  2. to be hot, to be calid
  3. to make the نَجِيرَة (najīra) dish
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نَجْر (najrm

  1. verbal noun of نَجَرَ (najara)
    1. heat
  2. origin, descent, root
  3. shape, form, figure
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نَجَر (najarm

  1. thirst
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Etymology 2 edit

Denominal verb of نَجَّار (najjār, carpenter).

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نَجَرَ (najara) I, non-past يَنْجُرُ‎ (yanjuru)

  1. to hew, to plane, to hone
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نَجَّرَ (najjara) II, non-past يُنَجِّرُ‎ (yunajjiru)

  1. to hew, to plane, to hone
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نَجْر (najrm

  1. verbal noun of نَجَرَ (najara)
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Etymology 3 edit

Seemingly a metathesis of جُرْن (jurn) – which is regionally also جِرْن (jirn) –, possibly motivated by the unrelated verb نَجَرَ (najara, to hew, to plane) since in a broad sense this is what one does with a mortar.

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نِجْر (nijrm (plural نُجُور (nujūr))

  1. mortar (used with a pestle)
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Etymology 4 edit

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نَجُرْ (najur) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of جَارَ (jāra)

Etymology 5 edit

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نَجُرُّ (najurru) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active indicative of جَرَّ (jarra)

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نَجُرَّ (najurra) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active subjunctive of جَرَّ (jarra)
  2. first-person plural non-past active jussive of جَرَّ (jarra)

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نَجُرِّ (najurri) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of جَرَّ (jarra)

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نُجَرُّ (nujarru) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past passive indicative of جَرَّ (jarra)

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نُجَرَّ (nujarra) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past passive subjunctive of جَرَّ (jarra)
  2. first-person plural non-past passive jussive of جَرَّ (jarra)

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نُجَرِّ (nujarri) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past passive jussive of جَرَّ (jarra)

Etymology 6 edit

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نَجْرِ (najri) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of جَرَى (jarā)

Etymology 7 edit

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نُجِرْ (nujir) (form IV)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of أَجَارَ (ʔajāra)

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نُجَرْ (nujar) (form IV)

  1. first-person plural non-past passive jussive of أَجَارَ (ʔajāra)

References edit

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “نجر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 641–642
  • Freytag, Georg (1837), “نجر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 243
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “نجر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[1], London: W.H. Allen, page 1103
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), “نجر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1108
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “نجر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1248