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))
قَرَّ (qarra) I (non-past يَقَرُّ (yaqarru), verbal noun قَرّ (qarr))
قَرَّ (qarra) I (non-past يَقُرُّ (yaqurru), verbal noun قَرّ (qarr))

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

Conjugation

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Verb

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قَرَّ (qarra) I (non-past يَقِرُّ (yaqirru), verbal noun قَرَار (qarār))
قَرَّ (qarra) I (non-past يَقَرُّ (yaqarru), verbal noun قَرَار (qarār))

  1. to settle down, to establish, to take up residence, to rest, to abide, to dwell, to live, to reside, to stay, to linger, to remain

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