Arabic vocabulary
ثَمَرَbore in Arabic
ثَمَرَ is how you say “bore” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Root ث م ر (ṯ-m-r)verb (form I)Pronounced ṯamara
Meaning of bore in Arabic
- to bear fruit (of a tree) — the base sense of the root, shared with the form IV verb أَثْمَرَ
- (of fruit) to ripen, become ripe
- to gather fodder trees or shrubs for livestock — used with لِـ, as in ثَمَرَ لِلْغَنَم, "he gathered trees for the sheep or goats"
- (tropical) to become abundant, of a person's wealth — an extension of the fruit-bearing sense to increase in property
Used literally of a tree producing or ripening its fruit, and of gathering fodder-trees for livestock. The same root, via the fruit metaphor, is also applied tropically to a person's wealth "bearing" increase — a figurative extension common across the ثمر family, including derived terms for property, offspring, and profit.
Words from the same root
- ثَمَرٌfruit (of trees); also, tropically, wealth or offspring
- ثِمَارٌfruits (plural of ثَمَرٌ)
- ثَمَرَةٌa single fruit; tropically, a child or offspring
- أَثْمَرَto put forth fruit, bear fruit; tropically, to grow wealthy
- ثَمَّرَ(of a plant) to set and compact its fruit; to increase one's wealth
- ثُمْرٌwealth, property (a variant of ثَمَرٌ in this sense)
Common questions
- How do you say "bear fruit" in Arabic?
- ثَمَرَ (ṯamara).
- What does the root of ثَمَرَ mean?
- The root ث م ر (ṯ-m-r) centers on fruit and, by extension, on increase or abundance — it gives ثَمَرٌ "fruit" and, tropically, "wealth."
Definitions synthesised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).
Example sentences
لحظة أثمرت حرارة القلق ألف سنة،
A moment bore the heat of anxiety for a thousand years.
أَثْمَرَتْ — it bore. Past-tense verb 'bore fruit, produced'; the '-at' ending marks the feminine subject ('a moment').
From: Adam's Descent →
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