م ق ر

Arabic

Root

م ق ر • (m-q-r)

1. related to acidity or bitterness

Derived terms

• Form I: مَقَرَ (maqara, “to strike with a stick; to marinate, to confect”)
  • Verbal noun: مَقْر (maqr)
  • Active participle: مَاقِر (māqir)
  • Passive participle: مَمْقُور (mamqūr)
• Form I: مَقِرَ (maqira, “to be acid or bitter”)
  • Verbal noun: مَقَر (maqar)
  • Active participle: ?
• Form IV: أَمْقَرَ (ʔamqara, “to marinate, to macerate, to bitter or sour”)
  • Verbal noun: إِمْقَار (ʔimqār)
  • Active participle: مُمْقِر (mumqir)
  • Passive participle: مُمْقَر (mumqar)
• Form VIII: اِمْتَقَرَ (imtaqara, “to dig out the well more”)
  • Verbal noun: اِمْتِقَار (imtiqār)
  • Active participle: مُمْتَقِر (mumtaqir)
  • Passive participle: مُمْتَقَر (mumtaqar)
• Form IX: اِمْقَرَّ (imqarra, “to have intumescent veins”)
  • Verbal noun: اِمْقِرَار (imqirār)
  • Active participle: مُمْقَرّ (mumqarr)

• مَقُور (maqūr, “bitter”)
• يَمْقُور (yamqūr, “myrrh”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1837) “م ق ر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 197b
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “م ق 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^[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1134a–1135a