ذ ك ر

Arabic

Etymology

Cognate with Aramaic ד־כ־ר (d-k-r) / Hebrew ז־כ־ר (z-k-r, “related to remembrance and maleness”).

Root

ذ ك ر • (ḏ-k-r)

1. related to remembrance.
2. related to maleness.

Derived terms

Verbs

• Form I: ذَكَرَ (ḏakara, “to remember, to recall”)
  • Verbal noun: ذِكْر (ḏikr), تَذْكَار (taḏkār)
  • Active participle: ذَاكِر (ḏākir)
  • Passive participle: مَذْكُور (maḏkūr)
• Form II: ذَكَّرَ (ḏakkara, “to remind, to point out”)
  • Verbal noun: تَذْكِير (taḏkīr), تَذْكِرَة (taḏkira)
  • Active participle: مُذَكِّر (muḏakkir)
  • Passive participle: مُذَكَّر (muḏakkar)
• Form II: ذَكَّرَ (ḏakkara, “to make masculine”)
  • Verbal noun: تَذْكِير (taḏkīr)
  • Active participle: مُذَكِّر (muḏakkir)
  • Passive participle: مُذَكَّر (muḏakkar)
• Form III: ذَاكَرَ (ḏākara, “to parley, negotiate, to have a talk”)
  • Verbal noun: مُذَاكَرَة (muḏākara)
  • Active participle: مُذَاكِر (muḏākir)
  • Passive participle: مُذَاكَر (muḏākar)
• Form IV: أَذْكَرَ (ʔaḏkara, “to remind, to call to mind”)
  • Verbal noun: إِذْكَار (ʔiḏkār)
  • Active participle: مُذْكِر (muḏkir)
  • Passive participle: مُذْكَر (muḏkar)
• Form V: تَذَكَّرَ (taḏakkara, “to remember, to bear in mind”), اِذَّكَّرَ (iḏḏakkara, “to remember, to bear in mind”)
  • Verbal noun: تَذَكُّر (taḏakkur)
  • Active participle: مُتَذَكِّر (mutaḏakkir), مُذَّكِّر (muḏḏakkir)
  • Passive participle: مُتَذَكَّر (mutaḏakkar), مُذَّكَّر (muḏḏakkar)
• Form VI: تَذَاكَرَ (taḏākara, “to remind one another of (something), to confer together, to have a talk”)
  • Verbal noun: تَذَاكُر (taḏākur)
  • Active participle: مُتَذَاكِر (mutaḏākir)
  • Passive participle: مُتَذَاكَر (mutaḏākar)
• Form VIII: اِذَّكَرَ (iḏḏakara, “to remember, to bear in mind”), اِدَّكَرَ (iddakara, “to remember, to bear in mind”)
  • Verbal noun: اِذِّكَار (iḏḏikār), اِدِّكَار (iddikār)
  • Active participle: مُذَّكِر (muḏḏakir), مُدَّكِر (muddakir)
  • Passive participle: مُذَّكَر (muḏḏakar), مُدَّكَر (muddakar)
• Form X: اِسْتَذْكَرَ (istaḏkara, “to remember, to recall, to memorize”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِذْكَار (istiḏkār)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَذْكِر (mustaḏkir)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَذْكَر (mustaḏkar)

Nouns

• ذِكْر (ḏikr, “recollection, remembrance, dhikr”)
• ذَكَر (ḏakar, “male”)
• ذَكَر (ḏakar, “penis”)
• ذَكَرِيّ (ḏakariyy, “masculine, manly, virile”)
• ذَاكِرَة (ḏākira, “memory”)
• ذُكَّار (ḏukkār, “the male of a dioecious tree”)
• ذَكِير (ḏakīr, “who holds his memory”)
• ذِكِّير (ḏikkīr, “who partakes in dhikr”)
• ذُكْرَة (ḏukra, “vehemence; rumor”)
• ذِكْرَى (ḏikrā, “monition”)
• تَذْكَار (taḏkār)
• تَذْكَارِيّ (taḏkāriyy)
• تَذْكِرَة (taḏkira, “reminder; ticket”)
• مُذَاكَرَة (muḏākara)
• مُذَكِّرَة (muḏakkira)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ذ ك ر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 486–488
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ذ ك ر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 90–91
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ذ ك 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 776–778
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ذ ك ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 968-971
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ذ ك ر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[5], London: W.H. Allen, page 387
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ذ ك ر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 358–359
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ذ ك ر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[6] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 428–430

South Levantine Arabic

Root

ذ ك ر • (transliteration needed)

1. Related to remembering and memory

Derived terms

Verbs and verb forms

• Form I: ذكر (zakar, “to mention”)
• Form II: ذكّر (zakkar, “to remind”)
• Form V: تذكّر (tzakkar, “to remember”)
  • Active Participle: متذكّر (mitzakker)

Nouns

• ذاكرة (zākre, “memory”)
• ذكرى (zikra, “a memory”)
• تذكرة (tazkara, “a ticket”)

Adjectives

• ذكر (zakar, “male”)