جعفر

Arabic

Etymology

An augmentation of the root ج ع ف (j-ʕ-f) meaning a to pull or uproot, to wash away, to overturn or rip from foundations, a torrent that carries things away; possibly blended with the root ج ف ر (j-f-r) denoting to be swollen, to be filled up, hence a full or flooded riverbed. The first root is potentially a dialect variant of the root ج ف ء (j-f-ʔ) also denoting the washing away of objects from a valley full of water, to sweep off or carry away, to pull or uproot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaʕ.far/

Noun

جَعْفَر • (jaʕfar) m (plural جَعَافِر (jaʕāfir))

1. full river
   1. camel full of milk
2. brook, creek, rivulet
   • 1960, جَوَّاد عَلِي (jawwād ʕalī), المفصل في تاريخ العرب قبل الإسلام [The Detailed History of the Arabs before Islam], 1, 4:

     ليس في جزيرة العرب انهار كبيرة بالمعنى المعروف من لفظة نهر مثل نهر دجلة أو الفرات أو النيل، بل فيها أنهار مغيرة أو جعافر.

     In the Arabian Peninsula there aren’t really rivers of river names like the river “Tigris” or the “Euphrat” or the “Nile”, but it has diverse rivers or rivulets.

3. flooded wadi, torrent

Declension

Declension of noun جَعْفَر (jaʕfar)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	جَعْفَر jaʕfar	الْجَعْفَر al-jaʕfar	جَعْفَر jaʕfar
Nominative	جَعْفَرٌ jaʕfarun	الْجَعْفَرُ al-jaʕfaru	جَعْفَرُ jaʕfaru
Accusative	جَعْفَرًا jaʕfaran	الْجَعْفَرَ al-jaʕfara	جَعْفَرَ jaʕfara
Genitive	جَعْفَرٍ jaʕfarin	الْجَعْفَرِ al-jaʕfari	جَعْفَرِ jaʕfari
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	جَعْفَرَيْن jaʕfarayn	الْجَعْفَرَيْن al-jaʕfarayn	جَعْفَرَيْ jaʕfaray
Nominative	جَعْفَرَانِ jaʕfarāni	الْجَعْفَرَانِ al-jaʕfarāni	جَعْفَرَا jaʕfarā
Accusative	جَعْفَرَيْنِ jaʕfarayni	الْجَعْفَرَيْنِ al-jaʕfarayni	جَعْفَرَيْ jaʕfaray
Genitive	جَعْفَرَيْنِ jaʕfarayni	الْجَعْفَرَيْنِ al-jaʕfarayni	جَعْفَرَيْ jaʕfaray
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	جَعَافِر jaʕāfir	الْجَعَافِر al-jaʕāfir	جَعَافِر jaʕāfir
Nominative	جَعَافِرُ jaʕāfiru	الْجَعَافِرُ al-jaʕāfiru	جَعَافِرُ jaʕāfiru
Accusative	جَعَافِرَ jaʕāfira	الْجَعَافِرَ al-jaʕāfira	جَعَافِرَ jaʕāfira
Genitive	جَعَافِرَ jaʕāfira	الْجَعَافِرِ al-jaʕāfiri	جَعَافِرِ jaʕāfiri

Proper noun

جَعْفَر • (jaʕfar) m

1. a male given name, Jafar, Jaafar, or Ja'far
2. Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad aṣ-Ṣādiq, a revered 8th-century Muslim scholar and the sixth Imam for Twelver and ʾIsmāʿīliyy Shia Muslims, after whom the Jaʿfari school of jurisprudence is named.

Declension

Declension of noun جَعْفَر (jaʕfar)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	—	جَعْفَر jaʕfar	—
Nominative	—	جَعْفَرٌ jaʕfarun	—
Accusative	—	جَعْفَرًا jaʕfaran	—
Genitive	—	جَعْفَرٍ jaʕfarin	—

Derived terms

• جَعْفَرِيّ (jaʕfariyy)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “جعفر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 198
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “جعفر”, 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, page 284
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “جعفر”, 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, page 300
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “جعفر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, page 430
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “جعفر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 186

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَعْفَر (jaʕfar).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒaʔ.ˈfaɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒäʔ.fǽɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒäʔ.fǽɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɑː.fǽɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɔː.fǽɾ]

 

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒæʔ.fǽɹ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒæʔ.fǽɹ]
  • (Tehrani) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒæː.fǽɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒäʔ.fǽɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	ja'far
Dari reading?	ja'far
Iranian reading?	ja'far
Tajik reading?	jaʾfar

Proper noun

Dari	جعفر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	Ҷаъфар

جعفر • (ja'far)

1. a male given name, Jafar, from Arabic