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زعر

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to scarcity or lack, particularly concerning hair or vegetation. It also extends to negative character traits like fierceness or bad temper, and a specific fruit.

Derived headwords

الزعرnoun
  1. 1.
    scarcity of hairboth

    scarcity of hair

أزعرadjective
  1. 1.
    he is bald/has little hairboth

    he is bald/has little hair

زعرverb
  1. 1.
    an ill-tempered manboth

    an ill-tempered man

الزعارةnoun
  1. 1.
    bad temperboth

    bad temper

الزعرورnoun
  1. 1.
    the ill-temperedboth

    the ill-tempered

  2. 2.
    a known fruit (hawthorn)both

    a known fruit (hawthorn)

Parallel reading

الزعر: قلة الشعر
Al-za'ar: scarcity of hair.
رجل أزعر
A man with little hair.
وقد زعر بالكسر
And he became sparse (in hair) with a kasra.
الموضع القليل النبات
A place with sparse vegetation.
الزعارة بتشديد الراء: شراسة الخلق
Al-za'aarah with a shaddah on the ra: fierceness of disposition.
لا يصرف منه فعل
No verb is derived from it.
الزعرور: السيئ الخلق
Al-za'rur: the ill-tempered one.
والعامة تقول: رجل زعر، وفيه زعارة
And the common people say: a man is za'ar, and he has za'aarah.
والزعرور: ثمرة معروفة
And al-za'rur: a known fruit.