هير

Root entry · 20 derived lemmas

This root primarily deals with concepts of collapse, falling, and destruction. It extends to related ideas like ruin, decay, and things that are easily destroyed or fall apart. It also encompasses terms for specific geographical features, types of wind, and even abstract concepts like falsehood and delusion.

Derived headwords

هارَverb

1.
to collapse, fall downboth
To collapse or fall down, specifically referring to a cliff or a building.

تَهَيَّرَverb

1.
to collapse, fall downclassical
To collapse or fall down, used as a variant of 'to collapse'. It can also mean to be collapsed or fallen.

هَيَّرَverb

1.
to cause to collapseclassical
To cause a cliff to collapse, used as a linguistic variant of 'هورته' (to cause to collapse).

انْهَارَverb

1.
to collapse, fall downboth
To collapse or fall down completely, especially after having cracked or split.

هَيَّارadjective

1.
collapsing, falling apartclassical
Describing something that collapses or falls apart easily, like sand.

هَيْرَةnoun

1.
easy landclassical
Easy or level ground.

هَيْرname

1.
name of the south windclassical
One of the names for the south wind (الصبا).

إِيْرname

1.
name of the south windclassical
One of the names for the south wind (الصبا).
2.
name of the north windclassical
One of the names for the north wind (الشمال).

هَائِرadjective

1.
falling, collapsedclassical
One that is falling or has fallen; collapsed.
2.
straight, uprightclassical
Straight or upright.

هُورَةnoun

1.
destruction, ruinclassical
Destruction or ruin.

اسْتَيْهَرَverb

1.
to replace, substituteclassical
To replace or substitute one's camels with others.
2.
to be certainclassical
To be certain or convinced of something.
3.
to persist, insistclassical
To persist or insist on a matter.

هَتْرnoun

1.
part of the nightclassical
A portion of the night, less than half.

هَيْرُورnoun

1.
type of dateclassical
A type of date.

هَيْرُونnoun

1.
type of dateclassical
A type of date, with a damma on the noon.

يَهيرnoun

1.
hard red stoneclassical
A hard, red stone.
2.
gum of acaciaclassical
The gum of the acacia tree (طلح).
3.
small stoneclassical
Small stones, like the size of palms.
4.
falsehood, vanityclassical
Something false or vain.
5.
large gumclassical
A large piece of gum.
6.
abundant waterclassical
Abundant water.
7.
windclassical
Wind.
8.
delusion, falsehoodclassical
Delusion or falsehood.
9.
persistence, obstinacyclassical
Persistence or obstinacy in a matter.
10.
small desert creatureclassical
A small desert creature larger than a rat.
11.
treeclassical
A tree.
12.
poisonclassical
Poison.

يَهيرىnoun

1.
falsehood, vanityclassical
Something false or vain.
2.
abundant waterclassical
Abundant water.
3.
stonesclassical
Stones.

يَهيرَةnoun

1.
small desert creatureclassical
The singular form of a small desert creature larger than a rat.

تيهورnoun

1.
collapsing sandclassical
Sand that collapses or drifts.

مُسْتَيْهَرadjective

1.
certainclassical
Certain or convinced.
2.
persistentclassical
Persistent or engrossed in something.

مُسْتَوْهَرadjective

1.
certainclassical
Certain or convinced.

Parallel reading

هار الجرف والبناء وتهير: انهدم

The cliff and the building collapsed and fell apart: they were destroyed.

إذا انصدع الجرف من خلفه وهو ثابت بعد في مكانه فقد هار، فإذا سقط فقد انهار وتهير.

If the cliff cracks behind it and remains standing in its place, it has collapsed; if it falls, it has fallen down and disintegrated.

وهيرت الجرف فتهير: لغة في هورته.

And I caused the cliff to collapse, and it collapsed: a dialectal variant of 'I caused it to collapse'.

ورجل هيار: ينهار كما ينهار الرمل

And a man is 'hayyar': he collapses like sand collapses.

والهيرة: الأرض السهلة.

And 'al-hirah': the easy land.

وهير وهير وهير: من أسماء الصبا، وكذلك إير وأير وأير، وقيل: هير وإير من أسماء الشمال.

And 'hayr', 'hayr', and 'hayr': are names of the south wind, as are 'ayr', 'ayr', and 'ayr'; and it is said: 'hayr' and 'ayr' are names of the north wind.

والهائر: الساقط، والراهي المستقيم، والهورة الهلكة.

And 'al-ha'ir': the falling one, the straight one, and 'al-hawrah' is destruction.

يقال: استيهر بإبلك واقتيل وارتجع أي استبدل بها إبلا غيرها

It is said: 'istayhir bi-ibilik' and 'iqtil' and 'irtaji'' meaning to replace your camels with others.

ومضى هير من الليل أي أقل من نصفه؛ عن ابن الأعرابي، وحكي فيه هتر وقد ذكر.

And 'hayr' of the night passed, meaning less than half of it; from Ibn al-A'rabi, and 'hatr' was narrated for it, which has been mentioned.

واليهير: الحجر الصلب الأحمر.

And 'al-yahir': the hard red stone.

الحجر اليهير: الصلب، ومنه سمي صمغ الطلح يهيرا

The 'al-yahir' stone: the hard one, and from it the gum of the acacia is named 'yahira'.

وقيل: هي حجارة أمثال الأكف، وقيل: هو حجر صغير، قال: وربما زادوا فيه الألف فقالوا: يهيرى، قالوا: وهو من أسماء الباطل.

And it is said: they are stones like palms, and it is said: it is a small stone, he said: and sometimes they add 'alif' to it and say 'yahira', they said: and it is among the names of falsehood.

واليهيرة التي يسيل لبنها من كثرته

And 'al-yahirah' is one whose milk flows abundantly.

واليهير، مشدد: الصمغة الكبيرة؛ وأنشد: قد ملؤوا بطونهم يهيرا

And 'al-yahir', with shadda: the large gum; and he recited: They filled their bellies with 'yahir'.

واليهير واليهيرى: الماء الكثير.

And 'al-yahir' and 'al-yahira': abundant water.

وذهب ماله في اليهيرى أي الباطل.

And his wealth went into 'al-yahira', meaning falsehood.

شمر: ذهب في اليهير أي في الريح.

Shammir: 'He went into 'al-yahir'' meaning into the wind.

ويقال للرجل إذا سألته عن شيء فأخطأ: ذهبت في اليهيرى؛ وأنشد: لما رأت شيخا لها دودرى ... تربد في الباطل واليهيرى

And it is said to a man if you ask him about something and he errs: 'You went into 'al-yahira''; and he recited: When she saw an old man for her, 'dudari' ... she became dusty in falsehood and 'al-yahira'.

وزعم أبو عبيدة أن اليهيرى الحجارة.

And Abu Ubaidah claimed that 'al-yahira' means stones.

واليهير: الكذب.

And 'al-yahir': lying.

وقولهم أكذب من اليهير، هو السراب.

And their saying 'more deceitful than 'al-yahir'', it is the mirage.

الليث: اليهير اللجاجة والتمادي في الأمر، تقول استيهر، وأنشد: وقلبك في اللهو مستيهر

Al-Layth: 'Al-yahir' means persistence and continuation in a matter, you say 'istayhar', and he recited: And your heart is engrossed in amusement.

قال أبو تراب: سمعت الجعفريين أنا مستوهر بالأمر مستيقن؛ السلمي: مستيهر.

Abu Turab said: I heard the Ja'faris say 'ana mustawhir bil-amr mustayqin' (I am certain of the matter); Al-Sulami: 'mustayhir'.

واليهير: دويبة أعظم من الجرذ تكون في الصحاري، واحدته يهيرة؛ وأنشد: فلاة بها اليهير شقرا كأنها ... خصى الخيل، قد شدت عليها المسامر

And 'al-yahir': a small creature larger than a rat found in deserts, its singular is 'yahirah'; and he recited: A desert where 'al-yahir' is reddish, as if it were ... the testicles of horses, to which the spears were tied.

واليهير، بالتخفيف، الحنظل، وهو أيضا السم.

And 'al-yahir', with lightened vowel, is the colocynth, and it is also poison.

واليهير: صمغ الطلح؛ عن أبي عمرو.

And 'al-yahir': gum of the acacia; from Abu Amr.

فظل يعوي حبطا بشر خلف استه، مثل نقيق الهر وهو يفعل لأنه ليس في الكلام فعيل.

So he kept howling with indigestion behind his rear, like the croaking of a cat, and it is 'yaf'al' because there is no 'fa'il' in the speech.

وشاهد تيهور للرمل المنهار قول العجاج: إلى أراط ونقا تيهور

And the evidence for 'tihwur' for collapsing sand is the saying of Al-A'raj: To dunes and heaps of 'tihwur'.