נור

נור

Arabic

Noun

נור • (nūr) m

1. Judeo-Arabic spelling of نُور‎ (nūr, “light”)‎‎
   • Genesis 1:3 in Saadia Gaon's Tafsir (circa 10th century)

     ‏ושא אללה אן יכון נור פכאן נור׃‎‎

     wašāʾa llāhu ʾan yakūna nūrun fakāna nūrun.

     And God willed there to be light, and then there was light.

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Hebrew

Root
נ־י־ר‎ (n-y-r)

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *nūr-, via Aramaic נוּר‎ (“fire”). Cognate with Arabic نُور‎ (nūr, “light”) and نَار‎ (nār, “fire”).

Noun

נוּר • (nur) m (plural indefinite נורים‎, singular construct נור־)

1. shining fire

   Synonym: אֵשׁ‎ (ésh)

2. light

   Synonym: אוּר‎ (ór)

Related terms

• נִיר‎ (nir)
• נֵר‎ (ner)

 

References

• H5135 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible