د ب ر

Arabic

Etymology

From Proto-Afroasiatic *dâb-.

Root

د ب ر • (d-b-r)

1. forms words related to rear, behind
2. forms words related to arranging, planning

Derived terms

• Form I: دَبَرَ (dabara, “to turn the back, to elapse”)
  • Verbal noun: دُبُور (dubūr)
  • Active participle: دَابِر (dābir)
  • Passive participle: مَدْبُور (madbūr)
• Form I: دَبِرَ (dabira, “to have galls in the back, to have sores in the back”)
  • Verbal noun: دَبَر (dabar)
  • Active participle: ?
  • Passive participle: مَدْبُور (madbūr)
• Form II: دَبَّرَ (dabbara, “to scheme, to plan, to devise, to arrange”)
  • Verbal noun: تَدْبِير (tadbīr)
  • Active participle: مُدَبِّر (mudabbir)
  • Passive participle: مُدَبَّر (mudabbar)
• Form III: دَابَرَ (dābara, “to die”)
  • Verbal noun: مُدَابَرَة (mudābara)
  • Active participle: مُدَابِر (mudābir)
  • Passive participle: مُدَابَر (mudābar)
• Form IV: أَدْبَرَ (ʔadbara, “to turn the back, to escape; to cause to follow”)
  • Verbal noun: إِدْبَار (ʔidbār)
  • Active participle: مُدْبِر (mudbir)
  • Passive participle: مُدْبَر (mudbar)
• Form V: تَدَبَّرَ (tadabbara, “to ponder, to consider, to meditate”)
  • Verbal noun: تَدَبُّر (tadabbur)
  • Active participle: مُتَدَبِّر (mutadabbir)
  • Passive participle: مُتَدَبَّر (mutadabbar)
• Form VI: تَدَابَرَ (tadābara, “to turn the back one upon another, to be opposed”)
  • Verbal noun: تَدَابُر (tadābur)
  • Active participle: مُتَدَابِر (mutadābir)
• Form X: اِسْتَدْبَرَ (istadbara, “to turn the back to, to pursue the opposite direction”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِدْبَار (istidbār)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَدْبِر (mustadbir)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَدْبَر (mustadbar)
• دَبْر (dabr, “swarm”)
• دُبْر (dubr, “rump, buttocks”)
• دَبُّور (dabbūr, “a wasp or hornet”)
• دَبْرَة (dabra, “flight, escape”)
• دَبَرِيّ (dabariyy, “tardy; situated in the rear”)
• دُبَار (dubār, “Wednesday”)
• دِبْرَة (dibra, “the way or direction of turning the back”)
• دَبُور f (dabūr, “west wind”)
• دَبِير (dabīr, “twist turned backwards, twine turned to the behind by twisting”)
• دُبَارَة (dubāra, “twine, thread”)
• اَلدَّبَرَان (ad-dabarān, “Alpha Tauri”)
• دَابِرَة (dābira, “hinder part of the pastern”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “د ب ر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 422–423
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “د ب ر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 4-5
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “د ب 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 663–666
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “د ب ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 844–848
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “د ب ر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[5], London: W.H. Allen, page 352
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “د ب ر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 312-313
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “د ب ر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[6] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 375–376