آزر

See also: أزر‎, ارز‎, and أرز‎

Arabic

Etymology 1

Denominal verb of إِزَار‎ (ʔizār, “drawers”). Compare equipped weightlifting.

Verb

آزَرَ • (ʔāzara) III, non-past يُؤَازِرُ‎‎ (yuʔāziru)

  1. to prop up, to assist, to support
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 48:29:
      ‏وَمَثَلُهُمْ فِي ٱلْإِنْجِيلِ كَزَرْعٍ أَخْرَجَ شَطْأَهُ فَآزَرَهُ فَٱسْتَغْلَظَ فَٱسْتَوَىٰ عَلَىٰ سُوقِهِ‎
      wamaṯaluhum fī l-ʔinjīli kazarʕin ʔaḵraja šaṭʔahu faʔāzarahu fastaḡlaẓa fastawā ʕalā sūqihi
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Hebrew אֱלִיעֶזֶר‎ (ʾelī-ʿezer, “Eliezer”), same source as of عَازِر‎ (ʕāzir, “Ezra”).

Proper noun

آزَر • (ʔāzar) m

  1. the father of Abraham, Terah
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 6:74:
      ‏وَإِذْ قَالَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ لِأَبِيهِ آزَرَ أَتَتَّخِذُ أَصْنَامًا آلِهَةً إِنِّي أَرَاكَ وَقَوْمَكَ فِي ضَلَالٍ مُّبِينٍ‎
      waʔiḏ qāla ʔibrāhīmu liʔabīhi ʔāzara ʔatattaḵiḏu ʔaṣnāman ʔālihatan ʔinnī ʔarāka waqawmaka fī ḍalālin mmubīnin
      Remember when Abraham said to his father Āzar: Takest thou idols for gods? Aye! I see thee and thy folk in error manifest.
    Synonym: تَارَح‎ (tāraḥ)
Declension

References

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1890), “Miscellen”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (in German), volume 4, page 338
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1902), “Miscellen zum Koran”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 56, page 72
  • Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 53–55
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1875) Mandäische Grammatik‎ (in German), Halle: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, page 59
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