فخار

Arabic

فَخَّار

Etymology

From Aramaic פחרא /‎ ܦܚܪܐ (paḵḵārā), from Akkadian 𒁃 (BAḪAR₂ /⁠paḫāru⁠/).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fax.xaːr/

Noun

فَخَّار • (faḵḵār) m

1. pottery, earthenware
2. (rare) potter, crocker

Declension

Declension of noun فَخَّار (faḵḵār)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	فَخَّار faḵḵār	الْفَخَّار al-faḵḵār	فَخَّار faḵḵār
Nominative	فَخَّارٌ faḵḵārun	الْفَخَّارُ al-faḵḵāru	فَخَّارُ faḵḵāru
Accusative	فَخَّارًا faḵḵāran	الْفَخَّارَ al-faḵḵāra	فَخَّارَ faḵḵāra
Genitive	فَخَّارٍ faḵḵārin	الْفَخَّارِ al-faḵḵāri	فَخَّارِ faḵḵāri

Derived terms

• فَخَّارِيّ (faḵḵāriyy, “earthen”)
• فَخَّارِيَّات (faḵḵāriyyāt, “pottery”)

References

• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 70
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “فخار”, 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^[1] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 553
• Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎^[2] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 23
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “فخار”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 947