نير

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See also: نیز

Arabic[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Root
ن و ر (n-w-r)

Compare نُور (nūr, light).

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

نَيِّر (nayyir) (feminine نَيِّرَة (nayyira), masculine plural نَيِّرُونَ (nayyirūna), feminine plural نَيِّرَات (nayyirāt), elative أَنْوَر (ʔanwar))

  1. luminous, lucid; bright
  2. shining, brilliant
  3. lighted, illuminated, brightly lit
  4. clear, plain
  5. distinct
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Etymology 2[edit]

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Borrowed from Aramaic נִירָא / ܢܺܝܪܳܐ (nīrā); from Akkadian 𒉌𒄿𒊒 (nīru, yoke, crossbeam).

Noun[edit]

نِير (nīrm (collective, singulative نِيرَة f (nīra), plural أَنْيَار (ʔanyār))

  1. yoke, a piece of wood about the neck of a bull together with its apparatus
  2. beam, a transverse piece of wood in a loom
  3. cane-roll
  4. woof, weft
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Descendants[edit]
  • Swahili: nira

Etymology 3[edit]

Noun[edit]

نِير (nīrm (rare)

  1. alternative form of نِيل (nīl, indigo)
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References[edit]

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “نير”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 741
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1845) Dictionnaire détaillé des noms des vêtements chez les arabes[2] (in French), Amsterdam: Jean Müller, page 78
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 94
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “نير”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[3] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 358
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “نير”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2870–2871
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “نير”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1333