حَرَارَةٌ heat in Arabic
حَرَارَةٌ is how you say “heat” in Arabic.
Root ح ر ر ḥ-r-r. noun (verbal noun / maṣdar). ḥarārah.
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Meaning of heat in Arabic
- heat, hotness Given as a verbal noun (maṣdar) of ḥarra 'to be/become hot'; one grammarian (al-Fayyūmī) instead treats it as a plain substantive rather than a maṣdar.
- thirst Lḥ records ḥarārah as an alternative verbal noun for ḥarra in the sense 'he thirsted' — a rarer, secondary use of the word, distinct from its ordinary sense of heat.
Example sentence
لحظة أثمرت حرارة القلق ألف سنة،
A moment bore the heat of anxiety for a thousand years.
حَرَارَةَ the heat
harara means 'heat'; the object of 'produced' (object form), heading an 'of…' phrase with the next word.
The English is machine-translated.
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How it is used
Ḥarārah is the standard word for heat, whether the literal heat of a day or of heated water, or (by extension in the wider family) a burning sensation of grief or distress. It sits in a root that also produced an unrelated-seeming branch of words for freedom (ḥurr, ḥurriyyah) — Lane's lexicographers themselves flag the two branches as distinct senses of the same consonantal root.
Words from the same root
- حَرٌّ heat; the opposite of cold
- حُرٌّ free, freeborn (also: noble, generous)
- حرّر to free or emancipate a slave; also, to write or word something accurately
- حُرِّيَّةٌ freedom, being freeborn
- حَرِيرَةٌ a dish of flour cooked over heat
- استحرّ (of slaughter or death) to grow fierce and widespread
Common questions
- How do you say "heat" in Arabic?
- حَرَارَةٌ (ḥarārah).
- Is ḥarārah (heat) related to ḥurriyyah (freedom)?
- They share the same root, ح-ر-ر, but Lane's Lexicon treats them as two distinct senses within that root family: ḥarārah belongs to the 'heat' branch (ḥarr), while ḥurriyyah belongs to the separate 'freedom' branch (ḥurr) — the classical grammarian Ibn Sīdah explicitly distinguishes the two.
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).