تيار

See also: تیار

Arabic

Etymology

An Aramaic borrowing, compare Hebrew תֹּואַר (tóʔar, “form, appearance”), Classical Syriac ܬܻܝ̈ܪܶܐ (tīrē, “seashore”), and Jewish Literary Aramaic תּוּר (tōr, “to go around (a border)”), denominal from תּוֹרָא (tōrā, “line, row; cord, band”), whence تُرّ (turr, “plumb line”) and تَارَة (tāra, “time, instance”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taj.jaːr/

Noun

تَيَّار • (tayyār) m (plural تَيَّارَات (tayyārāt))

1. stream, current (originally of the sea, then winds or else in physics, and lastly political and demographic ones etc.)

Declension

Declension of noun تَيَّار (tayyār)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	تَيَّار tayyār	التَّيَّار at-tayyār	تَيَّار tayyār
Nominative	تَيَّارٌ tayyārun	التَّيَّارُ at-tayyāru	تَيَّارُ tayyāru
Accusative	تَيَّارًا tayyāran	التَّيَّارَ at-tayyāra	تَيَّارَ tayyāra
Genitive	تَيَّارٍ tayyārin	التَّيَّارِ at-tayyāri	تَيَّارِ tayyāri
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	تَيَّارَيْن tayyārayn	التَّيَّارَيْن at-tayyārayn	تَيَّارَيْ tayyāray
Nominative	تَيَّارَانِ tayyārāni	التَّيَّارَانِ at-tayyārāni	تَيَّارَا tayyārā
Accusative	تَيَّارَيْنِ tayyārayni	التَّيَّارَيْنِ at-tayyārayni	تَيَّارَيْ tayyāray
Genitive	تَيَّارَيْنِ tayyārayni	التَّيَّارَيْنِ at-tayyārayni	تَيَّارَيْ tayyāray
Plural	sound feminine plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	تَيَّارَات tayyārāt	التَّيَّارَات at-tayyārāt	تَيَّارَات tayyārāt
Nominative	تَيَّارَاتٌ tayyārātun	التَّيَّارَاتُ at-tayyārātu	تَيَّارَاتُ tayyārātu
Accusative	تَيَّارَاتٍ tayyārātin	التَّيَّارَاتِ at-tayyārāti	تَيَّارَاتِ tayyārāti
Genitive	تَيَّارَاتٍ tayyārātin	التَّيَّارَاتِ at-tayyārāti	تَيَّارَاتِ tayyārāti

Derived terms

• تَارَ (tāra, “to estuate (said of the sea)”)
• تِير (tīr, “pride, haughtiness”)

References

• “tyrˀ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 228, 207, where for it and their **تِيَارَة (**tiyāra, “effrontery; elegance”) (glossed after Pedro de Alcalá’s transcription into Latin which surely represents طِيَارَة (ṭiyāra)) the same general borrowing direction is recognized, only with Hebrew תֹּואַר (tóʔar, “form”) and a seemingly imaginative “Syriac tirotā ‘spirit, conscience’”, with root connections incompatible with Wiktionary’s previous findings (at the doublets), Akkadian têrtum, Old Akkadian tāʾertum (“instruction, assignment”), which they connect to ر ء ي (r-ʔ-y) but is long known to be from wârum (“to go”).
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “تيار”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 206
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “تيار”, 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^[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 212
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2020) “تيار”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 6th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 109