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Root entry · 19 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of sleep, drowsiness, and the act of sleeping. It extends to related ideas like staying awake, especially for a divine purpose, and the passage of time, particularly delaying or prolonging activities. It also encompasses meanings related to digging and the movement of animals.

Derived headwords

كَرِيَverb
  1. 1.
    to sleepboth

    To be drowsy or sleepy.

  2. 2.
    to promise severelyclassical

    To make a strong or severe promise.

كَرِيَverb
  1. 1.
    to dig a riverclassical

    To newly excavate or dig a riverbed.

كَرِيَverb
  1. 1.
    to stir legs in runningclassical

    A she-camel stirs its legs in running.

كَرِيَverb
  1. 1.
    to be drowsyboth

    To be overcome with sleepiness.

كَرِيَverb
  1. 1.
    to be drowsyboth

    To be overcome with sleepiness.

كَرِيَverb
  1. 1.
    to be drowsyboth

    To be overcome with sleepiness.

أَكْرَىverb
  1. 1.
    to increaseboth

    To add to something; to increase.

  2. 2.
    to decreaseboth

    To diminish or reduce something.

  3. 3.
    to stay awakeclassical

    To stay awake, especially in obedience to God.

  4. 4.
    to delay evening prayerclassical

    To postpone the evening prayer or a similar activity.

  5. 5.
    to prolong talkclassical

    To make a conversation or narrative longer.

مَكَّارِيnoun
  1. 1.
    muleteerboth

    A person who transports goods or people using mules; a carrier.

نَبْتnoun
  1. 1.
    plantboth

    A plant, with 'one of them' being 'bahā'.

كَثِيرadjective
  1. 1.
    much of a thingboth

    A large quantity or amount of something.

كُرُوِيَاnoun
  1. 1.
    caraway seedsboth

    The seeds of the caraway plant, weighing 'fa'ūlal'.

كُرْوَةnoun
  1. 1.
    rentboth

    The fee paid by a tenant for the use of property.

كِرَاءnoun
  1. 1.
    rentboth

    The fee paid by a tenant for the use of property.

مُكَارَاةnoun
  1. 1.
    rentingboth

    The act of renting or hiring something.

اكْتَرَاهُverb
  1. 1.
    to rentboth

    To hire or rent something.

أَكْرَانِيverb
  1. 1.
    rented to meboth

    He rented his animal to me.

كُرُوnoun
  1. 1.
    rentboth

    The fee paid by a tenant for the use of property.

أَكْرِيَاءnoun
  1. 1.
    muleteersboth

    Plural of 'muleteer'.

مَكَارُونnoun
  1. 1.
    muleteersboth

    Plural of 'muleteer'.

Parallel reading

فهو كر وكريا وكري
So he is kar, and kariya, and kari.
وهي كرية
And she is kuriya.
مخففة: نعس
Lightened: he slept.
وعدا شديدا
And he promised severely.
و النهر: استحدث حفره
And the river: he newly dug its excavation.
و الناقة برجليها: قلبتهما في العدو
And the she-camel with its legs: it flipped them in running.
وأكرى: زاد، ونقص، ضد
And akra: he increased, and decreased, opposites.
وسهر في طاعة الله
And he stayed awake in obedience to God.
و العشاء: أخره
And the evening prayer: he delayed it.
و الحديث: أطاله
And the talk: he prolonged it.
وكغني: المكاري
And like 'ghani': the muleteer.
ونبت، واحدته: بهاء
And plant, its singular is: bahā.
والكثير من الشيء
And the abundance of the thing.
والكرويا، ويمد: بزر م، وزنه فعولل
And al-kurūyā, and it is extended: caraway seeds, its weight is fa'ūlal.
والكروة والكراء، بكسرهما: أجرة المستأجر
And al-kurwah and al-kirā', with kasra on both: the rent of the lessee.
كاراه مكاراة وكراء
He rented it from him, a renting and a rent.
واكتراه
And he rented it.
وأكراني دابته
And he rented his animal to me.
والاسم: الكروة والكرو، ويضم
And the noun: al-kurwah and al-karū, and with damma.
وجمع المكاري: أكرياء ومكارون
And the جمع of al-makkārī: akriyā' and makkarūn.