فرأ

Arabic

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *faraʾ-, related to the root ف ر ر (f-r-r) meaning "to be escaped", "to flee", "to be hasty or fleet", "to be hard to catch", used also describe the young of other animals like sheep, goats, wild cows, gazelle, antelope. Compare Akkadian 𒉺𒊏𒌑 (parû), Hebrew פֶּרֶה (pereʾ, wild ass), Somali faruw (zebra), Chinese 福祿 (zebra).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fa.raʔ/

Noun

فَرَأ (faraʾ) m (plural فِرَاء (firāʾ) or أَفْرَاء (ʾafrāʾ))

  1. wild-ass, onager, especially a young male

Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1835), فرأ”, 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 326
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), فرأ”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2357
  • Kogan, Leonid (2011), “Proto-Semitic Lexicon”, in Weninger, Stefan, editor, The Semitic Languages. An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft – Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science; 36), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 208
  • H6501 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), فرأ”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 949
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