ش ح ر

See also: س ح ر and س خ ر

Arabic

Etymology

Seemingly augmentative to ح و ر (ḥ-w-r), as seen in the variant ش ح و ر (š-ḥ-w-r), but largely borrowed from the Aramaic root related to blackness שׁ־ח־ר / ܫ-ܚ-ܪ (š-ḥ-r) for technical terminology; only شَحْر (šaḥr, “inner part of a valley; vestige of an ulcer”) is genuine, with that geographical having a cognate in Aramaic ס־ח־ר / ܣ-ܚ-ܪ (s-ḥ-r).

Root

ش ح ر • (š-ḥ-r)

1. related to soot

Declension

• Form II: شَحَّرَ (šaḥḥara, “to purify; to soot”)
  • Verbal noun: تَشْحِير (tašḥīr)
  • Active participle: مُشَحِّر (mušaḥḥir)
  • Passive participle: مُشَحَّر (mušaḥḥar)

• شُحْرُور (šuḥrūr, “blackbird”)
• مَشْحَر (mašḥar, “kiln, pile”)
• مَشْحَرِيّ (mašḥariyy, “collier”)
• شُحَّار (šuḥḥār, “black earth; soot, grime”)
• شَحِيرَة (šaḥīra, “iron vitriol”)
• إِشْحَارَة (ʔišḥāra, “Sisymbrium polyceraton”)
• شَحْر (šaḥr, “inner part of a valley; vestige of an ulcer”)

References

• “šḥr²”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ش ح ر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 732
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ش ح ر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 398
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ش ح ر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 636