قمار

Arabic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /qi.maːr/

Noun

قِمَار • (qimār) m

1. verbal noun of قَامَرَ (qāmara) (form III)
2. (uncountable) gambling

Declension

Declension of noun قِمَار (qimār)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قِمَار qimār	الْقِمَار al-qimār	قِمَار qimār
Nominative	قِمَارٌ qimārun	الْقِمَارُ al-qimāru	قِمَارُ qimāru
Accusative	قِمَارًا qimāran	الْقِمَارَ al-qimāra	قِمَارَ qimāra
Genitive	قِمَارٍ qimārin	الْقِمَارِ al-qimāri	قِمَارِ qimāri

Descendants

• Hijazi Arabic: قُمَار (gumār)
• → Azerbaijani: qumar
• → Persian: قمار
• → Georgian: ყომარი (q̇omari)
• → Kazakh: құмар (qūmar)
• → Kurdish:

  → Central Kurdish: قومار (qumar)

  → Northern Kurdish: qumar

  → Southern Kurdish: قومار (qumar)

• → Ottoman Turkish: قمار (kumar)
  • Turkish: kumar
  • → Albanian: kumar
  • → Armenian: խումար (xumar), կումար (kumar)
  • → Bulgarian: комар (komar)
  • → Greek: κουμάρι (koumári)
  • → Macedonian: комар (komar)
• → Uyghur: قىمار (qimar)

See also

• رِهَان (rihān)
• مَيْسِر (maysir)

Hijazi Arabic

Root
ق م ر
3 terms

Etymology

From Arabic قِمار (qimār).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡu.ˈmaːr/, [ɡʊ.ˈmaːr]

Noun

قمار • (gumār) m

1. gambling

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قِمَار (qimār, “gambling”), verbal noun of قَامَرَ (qāmara, “to gamble; to risk”).

Noun

قمار • (kumar) (definitive accusative قماری (kumarı), plural قمارلر (kumarlar))

1. gambling, an activity characterised by a balance between winning and losing that is governed by a mixture of skill and chance

   Synonym: میسر (meysir)

Derived terms

• قمار اوقی (kumar oku, “headless arrow-shaft”)
• قمار اوینامق (kumar oynamak, “to gamble”)
• قمار اویونی (kumar oyunu, “game of chance”)
• قمار كاغدی (kumar kâğıdı, “playing card”)
• قمارباز (kumarbaz, “gambler”)
• قمارجی (kumarcı, “gambler”)
• قمارخانه (kumarhâne, “gambling den”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kumar
• → Albanian: kumar
• → Armenian: խումար (xumar), կումար (kumar)
• → Bulgarian: комар (komar)
• → Greek: κουμάρι (koumári)
• → Macedonian: комар (komar)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “قمار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 535
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kumar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2834
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “kumâr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 630
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قمار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 971
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Alea”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 46
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قمار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3758
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kumar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قمار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1472

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قِمَار (qimār).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [qi.ˈmɑːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qɪ.mɑ́ːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qɪ.mɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [qɪ.mɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [qi.mɔ́ːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qe.mɒ́ːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [qi.mɔ́ɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	qimār
Dari reading?	qimār
Iranian reading?	ğemâr
Tajik reading?	qimor

Noun

Dari	قمار
Iranian Persian
Tajik	қимор

قمار • (qemâr)

1. gambling