ط م ر

Arabic

Etymology

The meaning “to bury” can be shed as an Aramaism, having encroached via مَطْمُورَة (maṭmūra).

Root

ط م ر • (ṭ-m-r)

1. related to rising upwards with one’s flat surface, intumescence, leaping

Derived terms

• Form I: طَمَرَ (ṭamara, “to rise, to leap upwards, to spring”)
  • Verbal noun: طَمْر (ṭamr), طُمُور (ṭumūr)
  • Active participle: طَامِر (ṭāmir, “flea”)
• Form I: طَمِرَ (ṭamira, “to become inflated, to become swollen”)
  • Verbal noun: طَمَر (ṭamar)
  • Active participle: ?
• Form I: طَمَرَ (ṭamara, “to bury, to landfill, to embed, to inter, to slam”)
  • Verbal noun: طَمْر (ṭamr)
  • Active participle: طَامِر (ṭāmir)
  • Passive participle: مَطْمُور (maṭmūr)
• Form II: طَمَّرَ (ṭammara, “to fold up, to roll up; to groom, to currycomb”)
  • Verbal noun: تَطْمِير (taṭmīr)
  • Active participle: مُطَمِّر (muṭammir)
  • Passive participle: مُطَمَّر (muṭammar)
• Form V: تَطَمَّرَ (taṭammara, “to be hidden, to be tucked away”)
  • Verbal noun: تَطَمُّر (taṭammur)
  • Active participle: مُتَطَمِّر (mutaṭammir)
• Form VIII: اِطَّمَرَ (iṭṭamara, “to leap upon”)
  • Verbal noun: اِطِّمَار (iṭṭimār)
  • Active participle: مُطَّمِر (muṭṭamir)
  • Passive participle: مُطَّمَر (muṭṭamar)

• طِمْر (ṭimr, “tatter, worn-out garment”)
• طِمِرّ (ṭimirr, “swift, fleet, of active legs”)
• مِطْمَر (miṭmar) and مِطْمَار (miṭmār, “plumb line, plummet”)
• طَمَار (ṭamār, “high place, elevated spot”)
• طُمَّرَة (ṭummara, “origin; first period of youthfulness”)

See also

• ش ب ب (š-b-b)

References

• “ṭmr”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ط م ر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 59–60
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 137
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “ط م ر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 70–71
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ط م 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 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 106–107
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ط م ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1879–1880
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ط م ر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[5], London: W.H. Allen, page 644
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ط م ر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 665
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ط م ر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[6] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 785–786