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مصر

مصر

See also: مضر

Arabic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /misˤɾ/
  • (Egypt) IPA(key): /masˤɾ/

Proper noun

مِصْر or مَصْر (miṣr or maṣr) f

  1. Egypt
  2. (colloquial) Cairo
Declension

Noun

مِصْر or مَصْر (miṣr or maṣr) m (plural أَمْصَار (ʾamṣār))

  1. big city, metropolis, capital
Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Derived from the active participle of أَصَرّ (ʾaṣarr, to persist in), from the root ص ر ر (ṣ-r-r).

Adjective

مُصِرّ (muṣirr) (feminine مُصِرَّة (muṣirra), masculine plural مُصِرُّون (muṣirrūn))

  1. insistent
Declension

Etymology 3

Denominal verb from مِصْر (miṣr, metropolis).

Verb

مَصَّرَ (maṣṣara) II, non-past يُمَصِّرُ‎ (yumaṣṣiru)

  1. to found, to build, to settle, to civilize, to colonize
Conjugation
Derived terms
  • تَمْصِير (tamṣīr, settlement, civilization, colonization; Egyptianization)

References

  • Wehr, Hans (1979), مصر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, ISBN 0-87950-003-4

Hijazi Arabic

مَصُر
عَلَم مَصُر

Etymology

From Arabic مِصْر (miṣr).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /masˤur/, [masˤʊr]

Proper noun

مَصُر (maṣur) f

  1. Egypt

Related terms


Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic مِصْر (miṣr).

Proper noun

مصر (mısır)

  1. Egypt

Noun

مصر (mısır)

  1. maize, corn

Pashto

Etymology

From Arabic مِصْر (miṣr), ultimately from Semitic.

Pronunciation

  • (rare) IPA(key): /mɪsɾ/
  • IPA(key): /mis.ar/

Noun

مصر (misr) m

  1. Egypt

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic مِصْر (miṣr).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mesɾ]

Proper noun

مصر (mesr)

  1. Egypt

Related terms


Urdu

Etymology

From Arabic مِصْر (miṣr).

Noun

مصر (misr) f, Hindi spelling: मिस्र (misra)

  1. Egypt