ن ض ر

Arabic

Root

ن ض ر • (n-ḍ-r)

1. related to splendour, striking shine

Derived terms

• Form I: نَضُرَ (naḍura, “to glisten, to shine, to strike the eye”)
  • Verbal noun: نَضَارَة (naḍāra)
  • Active participle: ?
• Form I: نَضِرَ (naḍira, “to glisten, to shine, to strike the eye”)
  • Verbal noun: نَضَر (naḍar)
  • Active participle: ?
• Form I: نَضَرَ (naḍara, “to glisten, to shine, to strike the eye”)
  • Verbal noun: نُضُور (nuḍūr), نَضْرَة (naḍra)
  • Active participle: نَاضِر (nāḍir)
• Form II: نَضَّرَ (naḍḍara, “to let glisten, to render shiny, to make strike the eye”)
  • Verbal noun: تَنْضِير (tanḍīr)
  • Active participle: مُنَضِّر (munaḍḍir)
  • Passive participle: مُنَضَّر (munaḍḍar)
• Form V: تَنَضَّرَ (tanaḍḍara, “to green”)
  • Verbal noun: تَنَضُّر (tanaḍḍur)
  • Active participle: مُتَنَضِّر (mutanaḍḍir)
• Form X: اِسْتَنْضَرَ (istanḍara, “to deem shiny, to find glistening”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِنْضَار (istinḍār)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَنْضِر (mustanḍir)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَنْضَر (mustanḍar)

• نَضْر (naḍr, “material of best quality such as that strikes the eye (usually gold)”)
• نُضَار (nuḍār, “material of best quality such as that strikes the eye (usually gold)”)
• نَضِر (naḍir, “shiny”)
• نَضِير (naḍīr, “shiny”)
• أَنْضَر (ʔanḍar, “shiny”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ن ض ر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 682
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ن ض 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, pages 292–293
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ن ض ر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1282