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h g r

18 lemmas · 7 languages
soundAll three consonants are regularT Gen.16.1
Themes:someone·3country·3muslim·2islam·2hagar·2
POS shape:noun·10verb·4name·3adj·1

This root is attested across 7 Semitic languages in our index. Each section below shows representative lemmas; attested means a Wiktionary editor explicitly tagged the root, inferredmeans we derived it mechanically from the word's consonantal skeleton.

Etymology treehow this root diverged from Proto-Semitic through the family

*h-g-rProto-Semitic
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Northwest Semitic
Canaanite
Hebrewהִגֵּרה ג רto immigrate
Aramaic
Syriacܡܗܓܪܐܗ ܓ ܪMuslim, converted to Islam
Assyrian NAܗܵܓ݂ܵܪܗ ܓ ܪHagar: The Egyptian concubine of Abraham, mother of Ishmael.
Arabic
Arabicهَجَرَه ج رbreak with someone and distance onceself, sever all relations with someone
South Semitic
Old South Arabian
OSA𐩠𐩴𐩧𐩠 𐩴 𐩧city
Ethio-Semitic
Ge'ezሀገርሀ ገ ረcultivated field, inhabited land, province, country
Tigrinyaሃገርሀ ገ ረcountry, land

Branch structure: Huehnergard (2005), Rubin (2010). The reconstructed Proto-Semitic form is computed on the fly from the cognate set's majority reflex pattern.

Old South Arabian

irregular reflexosa · 1 lemma

Classical Syriac

syc · 2 lemmas
  • adjattestedWiktionary ↗
    Muslim, converted to Islam
    From the root ܗ ܓ ܪ related to converting to Islam, from ܗܓܪ (Hāḡār), from Hebrew הָגָר (Hāḡār, “Hagar”).
  • mahgərānounattestedWiktionary ↗
    Muslim, convert to Islam
    From the root ܗ ܓ ܪ related to converting to Islam, from ܗܓܪ (Hāḡār), from Hebrew הָגָר (Hāḡār, “Hagar”).

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

aii · 1 lemma
  • hāḡārnameinferredWiktionary ↗
    Hagar: The Egyptian concubine of Abraham, mother of Ishmael.
    Borrowed from Classical Syriac, from Biblical Hebrew הָגָר (hāḡār, “stranger”).

Hebrew

he · 4 lemmas
  • higérverbattestedT Gen.16.1Wiktionary ↗
    to immigrate
    Coined by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda by analogy with هَاجَرَ (hājara, “to migrate”), whose root is a cognate of ה־ג־ר.
  • m'hagérnounattestedWiktionary ↗
    A (male) immigrant: a (male) person who is immigrating or who has immigrated to a place.
    From the present participle of היגר / הִגֵּר (higér, “to immigrate”).
  • hagérnouninferredT Gen.16.1Wiktionary ↗
    singular definite form of גֵּר (ger): the stranger, the foreigner.
  • hagárnameinferredT Gen.16.1Wiktionary ↗
    Hagar

Arabic

ar · 8 lemmas
  • hajaraverbattested☪︎ Q.2:218Wiktionary ↗
    break with someone and distance onceself, sever all relations with someone
  • hajrnounattested☪︎ Q.2:218Wiktionary ↗
    verbal noun of هَجَرَ (hajara) (form I)
  • hajarnameattested☪︎ Q.2:218Wiktionary ↗
    Town
  • ʔahjaraverbattested☪︎ Q.2:218Wiktionary ↗
    to abandon, give up
  • hājaraverbattested☪︎ Q.2:218Wiktionary ↗
    to migrate
  • hājirnounattested☪︎ Q.2:218Wiktionary ↗
    something excellent in its class; one who walks feebly, as though weak or heavily burdened
  • hijranounattested☪︎ Q.2:218Wiktionary ↗
    migration, emigration, immigration
  • hajīrnounattested☪︎ Q.2:218Wiktionary ↗
    someone who parted from his family and left the country

Ge'ez

gez · 1 lemma
  • hägärnouninferredWiktionary ↗
    cultivated field, inhabited land, province, country
    Compare Arabic هَجَر (hajar), Classical Syriac ܐܰܟܳܪܳܐ, Hebrew אִכָּר.
    3 derivations

Tigrinya

ti · 1 lemma
  • hagärnouninferredWiktionary ↗
    country, land
    Compare Ge'ez ሃጋር (hagar, “city, village, inhabited land”).

Related rootsshare 2 of 3 consonants with h-g-r

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