ط م ر

ط م ر

Arabic

Etymology

The meaning “to bury” can be shed as an Aramaism, having encroached via مَطْمُورَة‎ (maṭmūra).

Root

ط م ر • (ṭ-m-r)

1. related to rising upwards with one’s flat surface, intumescence, leaping

Derived terms

• Form I: طَمَرَ‎ (ṭamara, “to rise, to leap upwards, to spring”)
  • Verbal noun: طَمْر‎ (ṭamr), طُمُور‎ (ṭumūr)
  • Active participle: طَامِر‎ (ṭāmir, “flea”)
• Form I: طَمِرَ‎ (ṭamira, “to become inflated, to become swollen”)
  • Verbal noun: طَمَر‎ (ṭamar)
  • Active participle: طَامِر‎ (ṭāmir)
• Form I: طَمَرَ‎ (ṭamara, “to bury, to landfill, to embed, to inter, to slam”)
  • Verbal noun: طَمْر‎ (ṭamr)
  • Active participle: طَامِر‎ (ṭāmir)
  • Passive participle: مَطْمُور‎ (maṭmūr)
• Form II: طَمَّرَ‎ (ṭammara, “to fold up, to roll up; to groom, to currycomb”)
  • Verbal noun: تَطْمِير‎ (taṭmīr)
  • Active participle: مُطَمِّر‎ (muṭammir)
  • Passive participle: مُطَمَّر‎ (muṭammar)
• Form V: تَطَمَّرَ‎ (taṭammara, “to be hidden, to be tucked away”)
  • Verbal noun: تَطَمُّر‎ (taṭammur)
  • Active participle: مُتَطَمِّر‎ (mutaṭammir)
• Form VIII: اِطَّمَرَ‎ (iṭṭamara, “to leap upon”)
  • Verbal noun: اِطِّمَار‎ (iṭṭimār)
  • Active participle: مُطَّمِر‎ (muṭṭamir)
  • Passive participle: مُطَّمَر‎ (muṭṭamar)

• طِمْر‎ (ṭimr, “tatter, worn-out garment”)
• طِمِرّ‎ (ṭimirr, “swift, fleet, of active legs”)
• مِطْمَر‎ (miṭmar) and مِطْمَار‎ (miṭmār, “plumb line, plummet”)
• طَمَار‎ (ṭamār, “high place, elevated spot”)
• طُمَّرَة‎ (ṭummara, “origin; first period of youthfulness”)

See also

• ش ب ب‎ (š-b-b)

References

• “ṭmr”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “ط م ر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 59–60
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 137
• Freytag, Georg (1835), “ط م ر”, 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, pages 70–71
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ط م ر”, 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 C^ie, pages 106–107
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ط م ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1879–1880
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “ط م ر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 644
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “ط م ر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 665
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ط م ر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 785–786