عقار

Arabic

Etymology 1

From the root ع ق ر (ʿ-q-r).

Noun

عَقَار (ʿaqār) m (plural عَقَارَات (ʿaqārāt))

  1. real estate, immovable property
Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Aramaic עִיקָּרָא /‎ ܥܶܩܳܪܳܐ (ʿiqqārā, ʿeqqārā, root; drug), doublet of عِرْق (ʿirq, root).

Noun

عَقَّار (ʿaqqār) m (plural عَقَاقِير (ʿaqāqīr))

  1. drug, pharmacum, chemical substance that becomes active in the human body
Declension

Etymology 3

Another borrowing of Aramaic עִיקָּרָא /‎ ܥܶܩܳܪܳܐ (ʿiqqārā, ʿeqqārā), triplet of the former.

Noun

عُقَار • (ʿuqār) m

(uncountable, poetical)
  1.  wine that does not delay to intoxicate, hooch
    • طَرِبَ الشَّيْخُ فَغَنَّى وَٱصْطَبَحْ
      مِنْ عُقَارٍ تُنهبُ الْهمّ الفَرَحْ
      أخَذَتْ مِنْ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ لَوْنَهَــا،
      هِيَ فِي نَاجُودِهَا قَوْسُ قُزَحْ
      The shaykh gleed and sang and drank the booze
      forthy delight removes the sorrow.
      He obtained from every thing its hues
      and his cup exposed a rainbow.
Declension

References

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 163
  • Freytag, Georg (1835), عقار”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 193
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), عقار”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2109–2110
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), عقار”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 860
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