ث غ ر

Arabic

Etymology

Compare Akkadian 𒇵𒅈 (/⁠šaʾāru⁠/, “to vanquish”), Ugaritic 𐎘𐎙𐎗 (ṯġr), Hebrew שׁ־ע־ר (š-ʿ-r), Aramaic ת־ע־ר (t-ʿ-r) / ܬ-ܪ-ܥ (t-r-ʿ), Tigre / Tigrinya / Amharic / Sebat Bet Gurage / Harari / Ge'ez ሰ ዐ ረ (s-ʿ-r).

Root

ث غ ر • (ṯ-ḡ-r)

1. related to interstices, gaps

Derived terms

• Form I: ثَغَرَ (ṯaḡara, “to cause to have a gap”)
  • Verbal noun: ثَغْر (ṯaḡr)
  • Active participle: ثَاغِر (ṯāḡir)
  • Passive participle: مَثْغُور (maṯḡūr)
• Form III: ثَاغَرَ (ṯāḡara, “to stay at the frontline”)
  • Verbal noun: مُثَاغَرَة (muṯāḡara), ثِغَار (ṯiḡār)
  • Active participle: مُثَاغِر (muṯāḡir)
  • Passive participle: مُثَاغَر (muṯāḡar)
• Form VIII: اِثَّغَرَ (iṯṯaḡara, “to breed teeth on the front”)
  • Verbal noun: اِثِّغَار (iṯṯiḡār)
  • Active participle: مُثَّغِر (muṯṯaḡir)

• ثَغْر (ṯaḡr, “gap; foreteeth”)
• ثُغْرَة (ṯuḡra, “gap; foreteeth”)
• مَثْغَر (maṯḡar, “place where a tooth passes, gum; place where an enemy passes”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ث غ ر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 159
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ث غ ر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 219
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ث غ ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 338–339
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ث غ ر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 153