أكار

Arabic

Alternative forms

  • إِكَّار (ʾikkār)

Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic אִיכָּרָא / אִכָּרָא (ʾikkārā), ܐܱܟ݁ܳܪܴܐ (ʾakkārā, farmer), from Akkadian 𒀳 (/ikkāru/, farmer), from Sumerian 𒀳 (/engar/, farmer).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔak.kaːr/

Noun

أَكَّار (ʾakkār) m (plural أَكَّارُون (ʾakkārūn) or أَكَرَة (ʾakara))

  1. farmer, tiller, cultivator of land
    • a. 710, الأخطل [al-ʾaḵṭal], Theodor Nöldeke and August Müller, editors, Delectus veterum carminum arabicorum, Berlin: H. Reuther’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, published 1890, page 54:
      إِنَّ الفَوَارِسَ يَعْرِفُونَ ظُهُورَكُم، أَوْلَادَ كُلِّ مُقَبَّحٍ أَكّارِ!
      ʾinna l-fawārisa yaʿrifūna ẓuhūrakum, ʾawlāda kulli muqabbaḥin ʾakkāri!
      Indeed the nomads know your backs, children of every disdained boor!
    Synonyms: زَرَّاع (zarrāʿ), حَرَّاث (ḥarrāṯ), فَلَّاح (fallāḥ)

Declension

Derived terms

  • أَكَرَ (ʾakara, to till, to dig up), present يَأْكِرُ (yaʾkiru)

References

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