ن ز ر

Arabic

Root

ن ز ر • (n-z-r)

1. related to scarcity

Derived terms

• Form I: نَزُرَ (nazura, “to be minimal, to be little, to be scarce, to be scant, to be trifling”)
  • Verbal noun: نَزَارَة (nazāra)
  • Active participle: ?
  • Passive participle: مَنْزُور (manzūr)
• Form I: نَزَرَ (nazara, “to deem little, to esteem trifling; to withdraw little by little”)
  • Verbal noun: نَزْر (nazr)
  • Active participle: نَازِر (nāzir)
  • Passive participle: مَنْزُور (manzūr)
• Form II: نَزَّرَ (nazzara, “to make little, to make small”)
  • Verbal noun: تَنْزِير (tanzīr)
  • Active participle: مُنَزِّر (munazzir)
  • Passive participle: مُنَزَّر (munazzar)
• Form IV: أَنْزَرَ (ʔanzara, “to make little, to make small”)
  • Verbal noun: إِنْزَار (ʔinzār)
  • Active participle: مُنْزِر (munzir)
  • Passive participle: مُنْزَر (munzar)
• Form V: تَنَزَّرَ (tanazzara, “to decrease, to be rendered little, to become diminished”)
  • Verbal noun: تَنَزُّر (tanazzur)
  • Active participle: مُتَنَزِّر (mutanazzir)
• Form X: اِسْتَنْزَرَ (istanzara, “to render scarce”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِنْزَار (istinzār)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَنْزِر (mustanzir)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَنْزَر (mustanzar)

• نِزَار (nizār, “the quality of a she-camel to scarcely ever conceive except against her will”)
• نُزُور (nuzūr, “an instance of scarcity”)
• نَزِرَة (nazira, “an unprolific she-camel or she-human”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ن ز ر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 656
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ن ز ر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 265
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ن ز 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, page 1235
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ن ز ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2784
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ن ز ر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[5], London: W.H. Allen, page 1113
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ن ز ر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[6] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1260