نطر

See also: نظر and ن ظ ر

Arabic

Verb

نَطِرْ • (naṭir) (form I) /na.tˤir/

1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of طَارَ (ṭāra)

North Levantine Arabic

Etymology

Visibly a Western Aramaic substrate survival akin to Aramaic נְטַר (nəṭar, “to guard, to wait”). The Aramaic is in turn cognate to Arabic نَظَرَ (naẓara, “to look, to watch”), as well as the derived Arabic اِنْتَظَرَ (intaẓara, “to wait”), but bears no closer relationship.

Verb

نطر • (naṭar) I (non-past ينطر (yunṭur))

1. (intransitive) to wait
2. (transitive) to wait on, to wait for
4. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense, particularly "indications it survived poetically"?) (transitive, obsolete) to guard

Conjugation

Conjugation of نطر

		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
past	m	نطرت (naṭar(ᵊ)t)	نطرت (naṭar(ᵊ)t)	نطر (naṭar)		نطرنا (naṭarna)	نطرتو (naṭartu)	نطرو (naṭaru)
	f		نطرتي (naṭarti)	نطرت (naṭarit)
present	m	بنطر (bunṭur)	بتنطر (btunṭur)	بنطر (bunṭur)		مننطر (mnunṭur)	بتنطرو (btunṭuru)	بنطرو (bunṭuru)
	f		بتنطري (btunṭuri)	بتنطر (btunṭur)
subjunctive	m	نطر (nṭur)	تنطر (tunṭur)	ينطر (yunṭur)		ننطر (nunṭur)	تنطرو (tunṭuru)	ينطرو (yunṭuru)
	f		تنطري (tunṭuri)	تنطر (tunṭur)
imperative	m		نطور (nṭūr)				نطرو (nṭuru)
	f		نطري (nṭuri)

Derived terms

• نَطَّر (naṭṭar, “to make wait”)
• نَطْرَة (naṭra, “wait”, noun)

See also

Sense 3:

• نَاطًور (nāṭūr, “guard, concierge”) (also found as a borrowing in Standard Arabic)