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قَمَرَ lost in Arabic

قَمَرَ is how you say “lost” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فلعب يَوْمًا بالنرد على أَن من قمر صَاحبه شرب المَاء الَّذِي فِي النَّهر كُله أَو افتدي مِنْهُ

One day, he played dice on the condition that whoever lost to his companion would drink all the water in the river or ransom themselves from it.

قَمَرَ he lost

Past-tense verb 'qamara' = 'he beat (someone) at gambling'; subject 'he' is built in, and the next word is its object.

From Luqman's Response to Injustice

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وَإِن هُوَ قمر صَاحبه فعل بِهِ مثل ذَلِك

And if he won against his companion, he would do the same to him.

قَمَرَ won against

Past-tense verb 'qamara' = 'he beat (someone) at gambling'; subject 'he' is built in; the next word is its object.

From Luqman's Response to Injustice

قَالَ فقمر سيد لُقْمَان

He said: Then Luqman's master lost the game.

فَقَمَرَ so he won

'fa-' = 'so, then'; past-tense verb 'qamara' = 'he won at the game'; the following nouns name the subject.

From Luqman's Response to Injustice

فَلَعِبَ يَوْمًا بِالنَّرْدِ عَلَى أَنَّ مَنْ قَمَرَ صَاحِبَهُ

So one day he played dice, betting that whoever was his companion's moon.

قَمَرَ was moon

A past-tense verb with the 'he' subject built in, governed by the preceding 'whoever' as the action of the condition. The root here is being used in the wager's sense of one player beating or 'taking' the other, so read it as the condition's verb rather than any literal image. Its subject is the 'whoever' just before it.

From Luqman's Wisdom and Trial

قَالَ فَقَمَرَ سَيِّدُ لُقْمَانِ

He said, 'Then Qamar, the master of Luqman.'

فَقَمَرَ then he mooned

Here the connector 'fa-' (then) rides on what is read as a proper name, so the word as a whole introduces the next named figure in sequence. The 'fa-' supplies the 'then' that moves the account forward; the rest is taken as the name, not a literal verb. So it links a new participant onto the chain of events.

From Luqman's Wisdom and Trial

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