جار
العربية
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جار¹
Where it comes from
From Proto-West Semitic *gawar-.
verb جَارَ · jāra · يَجُورُ · جَوْر · جَائِر
- to deviate, to stray
- to commit an outrage, to wrong, to persecute, to oppress, to tyrannize
- to encroach, to make inroads
جار²
verb جَارَّ · jārra · يُجَارُّ · مُجَارَّة · مُجَارّ
- to be in the neighborhood of, to live nextdoor to
- to adjoin
- to be in the vicinity, to be close to
- to border
جار³
- /d͡ʒaːr/
Where it comes from
If we assume a pronunciation /ɔː/ for ā in ancient Ḥijāzi dialects of Arabic, as is also found necessary to be posited for other borrowings as قَيُّوم (qayyūm) and to make the Ethiopian Semitic borrowings of the present word phonologically plausible, then it is possible to conceive this word loaned from copiously attested Aramaic גיורא / ܓܝܘܪܐ (gīyōrā, “alien; proselyte”), functionally equivalent to Ugaritic 𐎂𐎗 (gr, “foreign resident, protected guest”) and Hebrew גֵּר (gēr, “alien; proselyte”) of which the feminine is גִיוֹרֶת (giyyṓreṯ, “proselyte”), while the specific meaning of a “neighbour” is found developed in Palestinian Aramaic מגירה / ܡܓܝܪܐ (məḡīrā), Northwest Semitic derivations of Proto-West Semitic *gawar- in the sense of ”to encroach upon the limits of, to assail, to come over” (while inheritance from Proto-West Semitic of the present noun per se would be difficult to construct); for the simplification of the shape of the word regard Arabic حُوت (ḥūt, “fish; whale”).
noun جَار · jār · جِيرَان · جَارَة · الْجَار
- neighbor جَارُنَا الْجَدِيدُ شَخْصٌ لَطِيفٌ وَوَدُودٌ.
- refugee
- protégé, charge
جار⁴
- /d͡ʒaː.rin/
Where it comes from
Derived from the active participle of جَرَى (jarā).
adjective جَارٍ · jārin · جَارِي · جَارِيَة · جَارُون · جَارِيَات
- active participle of جَرَى (jarā)
In English
- current existing or occurring at the moment
- preposition grammar: a type of word like "of, from, for, by"
- quick pregnant
- neighbour a person living on adjacent or nearby land
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title = {جار},
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