قر

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See also: فر and فز

Arabic

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Etymology

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From the root ق ر ر (q-r-r). Compare Hebrew קַר (qar, cold).

Verb

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قَرَّ (qarra) I (non-past يَقِرُّ (yaqirru), verbal noun قَرّ (qarr) or قُرَّة (qurra) or قُرُور (qurūr) or قَرَّة (qarra))
قَرَّ (qarra) I (first-person singular past قَرِرْتُ (qarirtu), non-past يَقَرُّ (yaqarru), verbal noun قَرّ (qarr) or قُرَّة (qurra) or قُرُور (qurūr) or قَرَّة (qarra))

  1. to be or become cold, to be cool, to be chilly

Conjugation

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Verb

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قَرَّ (qarra) I (non-past يَقِرُّ (yaqirru), verbal noun قَرَار (qarār))
قَرَّ (qarra) I (first-person singular past قَرِرْتُ (qarirtu), non-past يَقَرُّ (yaqarru), verbal noun قَرَار (qarār))

  1. to settle down, to linger, to remain
  2. to reside, to stay, to live (someone)
  3. to become established

Conjugation

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Adjective

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قَرّ (qarr)

  1. cool, cold, chilly

Declension

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Noun

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قَرّ (qarrm

  1. verbal noun of قَرَّ (qarra, to be cold) (form I)
  2. coldness, cold

Declension

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Noun

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قُرّ (qurrm

  1. cold, coolness, coldness, chilliness, frigidity

Declension

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Persian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Francis Joseph Steingass speculates that it is from Arabic قِرْد (qird, monkey, ape). His nineteenth-century dictionary gives "monkey" as the only noun definition while marking قر دادن (qer dâdan) as a "modern colloquial" verb for "to coquette about, sway the body as in a dance",[1] so perhaps the verb emerged first with a literal meaning of "to give the monkey", and the current meaning of the noun is a backformation from the verb.

Monši-Zâde instead suspects a connection with گرد (gerd, circular), and also a play on a form of غربال (ğarbâl, searce) due to the fashion a sieve is worked.[2]

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? qir
Dari reading? qir
Iranian reading? ğer
Tajik reading? qir

Noun

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قر (qer) (plural قرها (qer-hâ))

  1. (informal) twerk, twerking; gyrating one's hips (used for both men and women)
  2. (figurative, informal) flirting; coquetry

Usage notes

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  • قر (qer), rolling the hips, is the most common dance move in Iran and is not as sexualized as it is in the West.

Derived terms

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  • قر دادن (qer dâdan, to dance (while gyrating the hips))

References

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  1. ^ Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “قر”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  2. ^ Monchi-Zadeh, Davoud (1990) Wörter aus Xurāsān und ihre Herkunft (Acta Iranica; 29)‎[1] (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 72 Nr. 215