ظ ء ر

Arabic

Etymology

Likely variating ض ر ر (ḍ-r-r) in its “forcing” senses; for excrescent hamza in the middle regard سُؤْدَد (suʔdad).

Root

ظ ء ر • (ẓ-ʔ-r)

1. related to causing inclination in one respect and hence nursing

Derived terms

• Form I: ظَأَرَ (ẓaʔara, “to make suckle”)
  • Verbal noun: ظَأْر (ẓaʔr), ظِآر (ẓiʔār)
  • Active participle: ظَائِر (ẓāʔir)
  • Passive participle: مَظْؤُور (maẓʔūr)
• Form III: ظَاءَرَ (ẓāʔara, “to accept for suckling or nursing”)
  • Verbal noun: مُظَاءَرَة (muẓāʔara), ظِئَار (ẓiʔār)
  • Active participle: مُظَائِر (muẓāʔir)
  • Passive participle: مُظَاءَر (muẓāʔar)
• Form VIII: اِظَّأَرَ (iẓẓaʔara, “to be inclined to give a strange young suck; to procure as a nurse”)
  • Verbal noun: اِظِّئَار (iẓẓiʔār)
  • Active participle: مُظَّئِر (muẓẓaʔir)
  • Passive participle: مُظَّأَر (muẓẓaʔar)

• ظِئْر (ẓiʔr, “giving suck to strange offspring”)
• ظُؤُورَة (ẓuʔūra, “the status of giving suck to strange offspring”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1835) “ظ ء ر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 85
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ظ ء 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^[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 131–132
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ظ ء ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1907–1908