عُمَر Umar in Arabic
عُمَر is how you say “Umar” in Arabic.
Root ع م ر ʿ-m-r. proper noun (masculine given name). ʿumar.
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Meaning of Umar in Arabic
- Umar (a masculine proper name) Built on the same root as the words for 'life' and 'lifetime' below; the root's core sense is living long, or a place/thing being inhabited and flourishing.
Example sentence
وعلى عمر مخرج الرسول من دار الخيزران وقد طال ما خبي،
And upon Umar, who led the Prophet out from the house of Al-Khazeran, and indeed what was hidden lasted long.
عُمَرَ Umar
This proper name is governed by the preposition 'upon' just before it. As a name of this type it takes a single -a ending in the post-preposition slot rather than the usual two-vowel ending, a quirk of certain proper nouns.
The English is machine-translated.
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How it is used
عُمَر itself is a proper name rather than a common noun, but it is built on the same root that gives Arabic its everyday words for 'life' and 'lifetime' (عُمْر, عَمْر) and for a place being 'inhabited' or 'flourishing' (عَامِر, عِمَارَة). Lane's entry centers on the verb عَمِرَ, 'to live long,' and its causative عَمَّرَ, 'to prolong someone's life.'
Words from the same root
- عَمِرَ he lived, or continued in life, long; his life was, or became, long
- عَمَّرَ he (God) lengthened or prolonged someone's life, made him continue in life
- عُمْرٌ life, lifetime (the most chaste of the verbal-noun forms)
- عَمْرٌ life, lifetime (variant verbal-noun form, also used as a proper name)
- عَامِرٌ inhabited, peopled, flourishing, in a state of good repair
- عِمَارَةٌ the state of a place being inhabited, built up, or kept in good repair
- عُمْرَانٌ a place becoming inhabited and flourishing
More example sentences
وَقَد رَوَاهُ البُخَارِيّ فِي صَحِيحه عَن عمر بن الْخطاب
Al-Bukhari narrated it in his Sahih from Umar ibn al-Khattab.
عُمَرَ Umar
This is a personal name in the genitive case because the preposition just before it governs it, even though proper names carry case in Arabic. Note this name takes a single undoubled ending rather than the usual two, the pattern certain names follow.
ثُمَّ انْطَلَقَ، فَلَبِثْتُ مَلِيًّا، ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا عُمَرُ أَتَدْرِي مَنْ السَّائِلُ؟
Then he departed, and I stayed for a long period. Then he said: 'O Umar, do you know who the questioner was?'
عُمَرُ Umar
The name being called, in the special address form that follows the vocative particle, which is why it takes a plain ending with no tanwin. It identifies the listener the speaker turns to. The call form is Arabic's grammatical marker that this noun is being addressed, not used as subject or object.
Common questions
- How do you say "Umar" in Arabic?
- عُمَر (ʿumar).
- What root does the name Umar come from, and what does it mean?
- It comes from the root ع-م-ر, whose core verb عَمِرَ means 'to live long' or 'continue in life'; the same root gives عُمْر (life, lifetime) and عَامِر (inhabited, flourishing).
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).