فنار

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek φανάριον (phanárion).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.naːr/

Noun

فَنَار • (fanār) m (plural فَنَارَات (fanārāt))

1. beacon

   Synonyms: مَنَارَة (manāra), نِبْرَاس (nibrās)

2. lighthouse

   Synonym: مَنَارَة (manāra)

3. (nonstandard) lamp, lantern

   Synonyms: نِبْرَاس (nibrās), سِرَاج (sirāj), مِصْبَاح (miṣbāḥ), فَانُوس (fānūs), بَابُور (bābūr)

Declension

Declension of noun فَنَار (fanār)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	فَنَار fanār	الْفَنَار al-fanār	فَنَار fanār
Nominative	فَنَارٌ fanārun	الْفَنَارُ al-fanāru	فَنَارُ fanāru
Accusative	فَنَارًا fanāran	الْفَنَارَ al-fanāra	فَنَارَ fanāra
Genitive	فَنَارٍ fanārin	الْفَنَارِ al-fanāri	فَنَارِ fanāri
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	فَنَارَيْن fanārayn	الْفَنَارَيْن al-fanārayn	فَنَارَيْ fanāray
Nominative	فَنَارَانِ fanārāni	الْفَنَارَانِ al-fanārāni	فَنَارَا fanārā
Accusative	فَنَارَيْنِ fanārayni	الْفَنَارَيْنِ al-fanārayni	فَنَارَيْ fanāray
Genitive	فَنَارَيْنِ fanārayni	الْفَنَارَيْنِ al-fanārayni	فَنَارَيْ fanāray
Plural	sound feminine plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	فَنَارَات fanārāt	الْفَنَارَات al-fanārāt	فَنَارَات fanārāt
Nominative	فَنَارَاتٌ fanārātun	الْفَنَارَاتُ al-fanārātu	فَنَارَاتُ fanārātu
Accusative	فَنَارَاتٍ fanārātin	الْفَنَارَاتِ al-fanārāti	فَنَارَاتِ fanārāti
Genitive	فَنَارَاتٍ fanārātin	الْفَنَارَاتِ al-fanārāti	فَنَارَاتِ fanārāti

Descendants

• Ottoman Turkish: فنر (fener), فنار (fenar)
  • Turkish: fener
  • → Albanian: fener
  • → Armenian: ֆանար (fanar)
  • → Aromanian: finere f
  • → Azerbaijani: fənər
  • → Bulgarian: фене́р (fenér)
  • → Crimean Tatar: fener
  • → Gilaki: فنار (fanár)
  • → Macedonian: фенер (fener)
  • → Mazanderani: فنر (fenar)
  • → Persian: فنر (fanar), فنار (fanâr)
  • → Romanian: fanar, fener, fânar, fănar
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: фѐњер

    Latin script: fènjer

References

• Behnstedt, Peter, Woidich, Manfred (2012) Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte – Band II: Materielle Kultur (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 100/II) (in German), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 83–86
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “فنار”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 284
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 96

Ottoman Turkish

Noun

فنار • (fenar)

1. Alternative form of فنر (fener)

Persian

Noun

فنار • (fanâr) (plural فنرها)

1. Alternative form of فنر (fanar)