ستر

See also: سپر, سبز, and شتر

Arabic

Etymology

From س ت ر (s-t-r).

Verb

سَتَرَ (satara) I, non-past يَسْتُرُ‎ (yasturu)

  1. to cover, to veil
  2. to umbrella, to safeguard

Conjugation

Verb

سَتَّرَ (sattara) II, non-past يُسَتِّرُ‎ (yusattiru)

  1. to cover, to veil
    • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 15:449:
      فَجَعَلَ ٱبْنُ ٱلزُّبَيْرِ أَعْمِدَةً فَسَتَّرَ عَلَيْهَا ٱلسُّتُور حَتَّى ٱرْتَفَعَ بِنَاؤُهُ
      fa-jaʿala bnu z-zubayri ʾaʿmidatan fa-sattara ʿalayhā s-sutūra ḥattā rtafaʿa bināʾuhū
      And Ibn Az-Zubayr made pillars and covered them with curtains to further the building’s erection.
  2. to umbrella, to safeguard

Conjugation

Noun

سِتْر (sitr) m (plural سُتُور (sutūr) or أَسْتَار (ʾastār))

  1. curtain, drape
    • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 15:449:
      فَجَعَلَ ٱبْنُ ٱلزُّبَيْرِ أَعْمِدَةً فَسَتَّرَ عَلَيْهَا ٱلسُّتُورَ حَتَّى ٱرْتَفَعَ بِنَاؤُهُ
      fa-jaʿala bnu z-zubayri ʾaʿmidatan fa-sattara ʿalayhā s-sutūra ḥattā rtafaʿa bināʾuhū
      And Ibn Az-Zubayr made pillars and covered them with curtains to further the building’s erection.

Declension

Noun

سُتَر (sutar) pl

  1. plural of سُتْرَة (sutra)

Noun

سُتُر (sutur) pl

  1. plural of سِتَار (sitār)

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1833), ستر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 283
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), ستر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1304
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), ستر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 551–552

Pashto

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *stā-r-. Cognates include Ossetian стыр (styr, great) and Old Norse stórr (large).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stər/

Adjective

ستر (stër)

  1. large, great, big

Declension


Urdu

Numeral

ستر (sattar), Hindi spelling: सत्तर (sattar)

  1. (cardinal) seventy
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