أخطر

Arabic

Etymology 1

Elative of خَطِر‎ (ḵaṭir, “dangerous, risky, serious, important, eminent”) and خَطِير‎ (ḵaṭīr, “(same)”), from the root خ ط ر‎ (ḵ-ṭ-r).

Adjective

أَخْطَر • (ʔaḵṭar) (feminine خُطْرَى‎ (ḵuṭrā), masculine plural أَخَاطِر‎ (ʔaḵāṭir), feminine plural خُطْرَيَات‎ (ḵuṭrayāt))

  1. elative degree of خَطِر‎ (ḵaṭir), elative degree of خَطِير‎ (ḵaṭīr):
    1. more dangerous, riskier; most dangerous, riskiest
    2. more serious; most serious
    3. more important; most important
    4. more eminent; most eminent
Declension

Etymology 2

From the root خ ط ر‎ (ḵ-ṭ-r).

Verb

أَخْطَرَ • (ʔaḵṭara) IV, non-past يُخْطِرُ‎‎ (yuḵṭiru)

  1. to inform, to notify, to alert
Conjugation

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1830), “أخطر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 501
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “خطر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), “خطر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
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