ب ش ر

Arabic

Root

ب ش ر • (b-š-r)

1. related to flesh, complexion of the skin
2. related to expressed joy

Derived terms

• Form I: بَشِرَ (bašira, “to rejoice”), بَشَرَ (bašara, “to rejoice”)
  • Verbal noun: بَشَر (bašar)
  • Active participle: بَاشِر (bāšir)
  • Passive participle: مَبْشُور (mabšūr)
• Form I: بَشَرَ (bašara, “to peel”)
  • Verbal noun: بَشْر (bašr)
  • Active participle: بَاشِر (bāšir)
  • Passive participle: مَبْشُور (mabšūr)
• Form II: بَشَّرَ (baššara, “to bring good news”)
  • Verbal noun: تَبْشِير (tabšīr)
  • Active participle: مُبَشِّر (mubaššir)
  • Passive participle: مُبَشَّر (mubaššar)
• Form III: بَاشَرَ (bāšara, “to carry out, to perform”)
  • Verbal noun: مُبَاشَرَة (mubāšara)
  • Active participle: مُبَاشِر (mubāšir)
  • Passive participle: مُبَاشَر (mubāšar)
• Form IV: أَبْشَرَ (ʔabšara, “to rejoice upon; to make beautiful and bright”)
  • Verbal noun: إِبْشَار (ʔibšār)
  • Active participle: مُبْشِر (mubšir)
  • Passive participle: مُبْشَر (mubšar)
• Form V: تَبَشَّرَ (tabaššara, “to rejoice”)
  • Verbal noun: تَبَشُّر (tabaššur)
  • Active participle: مُتَبَشِّر (mutabaššir)
• Form VI: تَبَاشَرَ (tabāšara, “to announce a joyful event to each other”)
  • Verbal noun: تَبَاشُر (tabāšur)
  • Active participle: مُتَبَاشِر (mutabāšir)
• Form VII: اِنْبَشَرَ (inbašara, “to be peeled, to be pared”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْبِشَار (inbišār)
  • Active participle: مُنْبَشِر (munbašir)
• Form X: اِسْتَبْشَرَ (istabšara, “to rejoice upon”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِبْشَار (istibšār)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَبْشِر (mustabšir)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَبْشَر (mustabšar)

• بَشَر (bašar, “skin; human”)
• بُشْرَى (bušrā, “good news”)
• بِشْر (bišr, “cheerfulness, joy”)
• بِشَارَة (bišāra, “good announcement”)
• بَشِير (bašīr, “who announces joyful events; fair, sheen, of a gladdening appearance”)
  • أَبْشَر (ʔabšar, “fairer, sheener”)
• بَشَارَة (bašāra, “elegance of form or features”)
• بُشَارَة (bušāra, “what is pared off of skin”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ب ش ر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 88–89
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ب ش 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, pages 124–125
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ب ش ر”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[3] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 128–130
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ب ش ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 207–208
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ب ش ر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[5], London: W.H. Allen, page 125
• Wahrmund, Adolf (1887) “ب ش ر”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache‎^[6] (in German), volume 1, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, pages 217–218
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ب ش ر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[7] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 90–91