ج م ر

Arabic

Root

ج م ر • (j-m-r)

1. related to a focal point

Derived terms

• Form I: جَمَرَ (jamara, “to be covered by heat, to convene into a focal point”)
  • Verbal noun: جَمِير (jamīr)
  • Active participle: جَامِر (jāmir)
• Form II: جَمَّرَ (jammara, “to collect together; to cense, to fumigate; to roast”)
  • Verbal noun: تَجْمِير (tajmīr)
  • Active participle: مُجَمِّر (mujammir)
  • Passive participle: مُجَمَّر (mujammar)
• Form IV: أَجْمَرَ (ʔajmara, “to collect together the common mass”)
  • Verbal noun: إِجْمَار (ʔijmār)
  • Active participle: مُجْمِر (mujmir)
• Form V: تَجَمَّرَ (tajammara, “to be collected together; to be enkindled”)
  • Verbal noun: تَجَمُّر (tajammur)
  • Active participle: مُتَجَمِّر (mutajammir)
• Form VIII: اِجْتَمَرَ (ijtamara, “to smoke, to fumigate”)
  • Verbal noun: اِجْتِمَار (ijtimār)
  • Active participle: مُجْتَمِر (mujtamir)
  • Passive participle: مُجْتَمَر (mujtamar)
• Form X: اِسْتَجْمَرَ (istajmara)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِجْمَار (istijmār)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَجْمِر (mustajmir)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَجْمَر (mustajmar)

• جَمِيرَة (jamīra, “plait of hair”)
• جُمَّار (jummār) and جُمَّارَة (jummāra, “heart of palm”)
• جَامُور (jāmūr, “spire”)
• مِجْمَر (mijmar) and مِجْمَرَة (mijmara, “brazier”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ج م ر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 212–213
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ج م ر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 303
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ج م ر”, 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 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 324–325
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ج م ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 452–454
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ج م ر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[5], London: W.H. Allen, page 244
• Wahrmund, Adolf (1887) “ج م ر”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache‎^[6] (in German), volume 1, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, pages 454–455
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ج م ر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[7] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 196