وتر

Arabic

Etymology

From the root و ت ر (w-t-r).

Verb

وَتَرَ (watara) I, non-past يَتِرُ‎ (yatiru)

  1. to string (as a bow), to provide with a string
  2. to wrong, to harm, to cheat, to dupe

Conjugation

Verb

وَتَّرَ (wattara) II, non-past يُوَتِّرُ‎ (yuwattiru)

  1. to stretch, to strain, to draw tight, to pull taut

Conjugation

Adjective

وَتْر or وِتْر (watr or witr)

  1. uneven
  2. odd (numbers)

Declension

Noun

وَتَر (watar) m (plural أَوْتَار (ʾawtār))

  1. string
  2. (anatomy) sinew, tendon
  3. (geometry, music) chord
  4. (geometry) hypotenuse

Declension

Noun

وَتْر (watr) m

  1. verbal noun of وَتَرَ (watara) (form I)

Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1837), وتر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 432
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), وتر”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1480
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), وتر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), وتر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1372

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وتر (watar)

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ʋə.t̪əɾ/

Noun

وتر (vatar) m

  1. hypotenuse

References

Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), وتر”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.

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