فخار

Arabic

فَخَّار

Etymology

From Aramaic פחרא / ܦܚܪܐ (paḥḥārā), from Akkadian 𒁃 (BAḪAR₂ /⁠paḫāru⁠/).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fax.xaːr/

Noun

فَخَّار • (faḵḵār) m

1. pottery, earthenware
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 55:14:

     خَلَقَ الْإِنْسَانَ مِن صَلْصَالٍ كَالْفَخَّارِ

     ḵalaqa l-ʔinsāna min ṣalṣālin ka-l-faḵḵāri

     He created man from clay as of pottery.

2. (rare) potter, crocker

Declension

Declension of noun فَخَّار (faḵḵār)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	فَخَّار faḵḵār	الْفَخَّار al-faḵḵār	فَخَّار faḵḵār
Nominative	فَخَّارٌ faḵḵārun	الْفَخَّارُ al-faḵḵāru	فَخَّارُ faḵḵāru
Accusative	فَخَّارًا faḵḵāran	الْفَخَّارَ al-faḵḵāra	فَخَّارَ faḵḵāra
Genitive	فَخَّارٍ faḵḵārin	الْفَخَّارِ al-faḵḵāri	فَخَّارِ faḵḵāri

Derived terms

• فَخَّارِيّ (faḵḵāriyy, “earthen”)
• فَخَّارِيَّات (faḵḵāriyyāt, “pottery”)

References

• Fischer, August (1918) “Zu arabisch faḫḫār”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[1] (in German), volume 72, pages 328–339
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 70
• Guidi, Ignazio (1879) Della sede primitiva dei popoli semitici (in Italian), Rome: Tipi del Salviucci, page 37
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “فخار”, 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 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 553
• Lidzbarski, Mark (1918) “Zu arabisch faḫḫār”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[3] (in German), volume 72, pages 189–192
• Nöldeke, Theodor (1875) Mandäische Grammatik‎^[4] (in German), Halle: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, page 120
• Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎^[5] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 23
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “فخار”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[6] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 947

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic فَخَّار (faḵḵār).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fax.xaːr/

Noun

فخار • (faḵḵār) m (usually uncountable)

1. pottery, earthenware

Noun

فخار • (faḵḵār) m (plural فخارة (faḵḵāra), feminine فخارة (faḵḵāra))

1. potter