أثر

العربية

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أثر¹

  • /ʔaθ.θa.ra/

verb أَثَّرَ · ʔaṯṯara · يُؤَثِّرُ · تَأْثِير · مُؤَثِّر

  1. to influence, to affect, to have an effect on وَجَمَالُ الْأَشْخَاصِ هُوَ أَمْرٌ يُؤَثِّرُ بِالْمَشَاعِرِ وَيُوَلِّدُ الْاِنْجِذَابَ نَحْوَ الْآخَرِينَ.
  2. to induce

أثر²

  • /ʔa.θar/

Where it comes from

Inherited from Proto-Semitic *ʔaṯar-. Cognate with Hebrew אֲשֶׁר (ʾăšĕ́r, a relative pronoun or relativizer), Ge'ez አሰር (ʾäsär), አሠር (ʾäśär, “trace, vestige; way; relic”), Aramaic אַתְרָא / ܐܰܬܪܳܐ (ʾaṯrā, “place; region; country”), Akkadian 𒆠 (ašrum, “place, site”) and Ugaritic 𐎀𐎘𐎗 (ảṯr)

noun أَثَر · ʔaṯar · آثَار · الْأَثَر

  1. trace, vestige
  2. sign, mark
  3. touch
  4. effect, action, influence, impression
  5. work of art
  6. ancient monument
  7. relic

In English

  • trail signs of something/someone has passed previously
  • effect result of an action
  • influence transitive: to exert an influence upon
  • affect to influence or alter
  • trace mark left as a sign of passage
  • track mark left by something that has passed along
  • impression overall effect of something
  • relic that which remains
  • repercussion consequence, result of action

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {أثر},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ar/%D8%A3%D8%AB%D8%B1},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}

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