منشار

Arabic

Etymology

Tool noun from نَشَرَ (našara, “to saw”), from the root ن ش ر (n-š-r).

Noun

مِنْشَار • (minšār) m (plural مَنَاشِير (manāšīr))

1. saw
2. sawfish
3. winnowing fan

Declension

Declension of noun مِنْشَار (minšār)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مِنْشَار minšār	الْمِنْشَار al-minšār	مِنْشَار minšār
Nominative	مِنْشَارٌ minšārun	الْمِنْشَارُ al-minšāru	مِنْشَارُ minšāru
Accusative	مِنْشَارًا minšāran	الْمِنْشَارَ al-minšāra	مِنْشَارَ minšāra
Genitive	مِنْشَارٍ minšārin	الْمِنْشَارِ al-minšāri	مِنْشَارِ minšāri
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مِنْشَارَيْن minšārayn	الْمِنْشَارَيْن al-minšārayn	مِنْشَارَيْ minšāray
Nominative	مِنْشَارَانِ minšārāni	الْمِنْشَارَانِ al-minšārāni	مِنْشَارَا minšārā
Accusative	مِنْشَارَيْنِ minšārayni	الْمِنْشَارَيْنِ al-minšārayni	مِنْشَارَيْ minšāray
Genitive	مِنْشَارَيْنِ minšārayni	الْمِنْشَارَيْنِ al-minšārayni	مِنْشَارَيْ minšāray
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَنَاشِير manāšīr	الْمَنَاشِير al-manāšīr	مَنَاشِير manāšīr
Nominative	مَنَاشِيرُ manāšīru	الْمَنَاشِيرُ al-manāšīru	مَنَاشِيرُ manāšīru
Accusative	مَنَاشِيرَ manāšīra	الْمَنَاشِيرَ al-manāšīra	مَنَاشِيرَ manāšīra
Genitive	مَنَاشِيرَ manāšīra	الْمَنَاشِيرِ al-manāšīri	مَنَاشِيرِ manāšīri

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: mişar
• → Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: mişar

  Central Kurdish: مِشار (mişar)

  Southern Kurdish: مِشار (mişar)

• → Persian: منشار (menšâr)

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “منشار”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen

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Persian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic مِنْشَار (minšār).

Noun

Dari	منشار
Iranian Persian
Tajik	миншор

منشار • (menšâr) (plural مناشیر (manâšir) or منشارها (menšâr-hâ))

1. (rare) saw

Synonyms

• اره (arre)