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 ר— to immigrate
Aramaic
Syriacܡܗܓܪܐܗ ܓ ܪ— Muslim, converted to Islam
Assyrian NAܗܵܓ݂ܵܪܗ ܓ ܪ— Hagar: The Egyptian concubine of Abraham, mother of Ishmael.
Arabic
Arabicهَجَرَه ج ر— break with someone and distance onceself, sever all relations with someone
South Semitic
Old South Arabian
OSA𐩠𐩴𐩧𐩠 𐩴 𐩧— city
Ethio-Semitic
Ge'ezሀገርሀ ገ ረ— cultivated field, inhabited land, province, country
Tigrinyaሃገርሀ ገ ረ— country, 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- city
Classical Syriac
syc · 2 lemmas- Muslim, converted to IslamFrom the root ܗ ܓ ܪ related to converting to Islam, from ܗܓܪ (Hāḡār), from Hebrew הָגָר (Hāḡār, “Hagar”).
- Muslim, convert to IslamFrom the root ܗ ܓ ܪ related to converting to Islam, from ܗܓܪ (Hāḡār), from Hebrew הָגָר (Hāḡār, “Hagar”).
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
aii · 1 lemma- Hagar: The Egyptian concubine of Abraham, mother of Ishmael.Borrowed from Classical Syriac, from Biblical Hebrew הָגָר (hāḡār, “stranger”).
Hebrew
he · 4 lemmas- to immigrateCoined by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda by analogy with هَاجَرَ (hājara, “to migrate”), whose root is a cognate of ה־ג־ר.
- 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”).
- singular definite form of גֵּר (ger): the stranger, the foreigner.
- Hagar
Arabic
ar · 8 lemmas- break with someone and distance onceself, sever all relations with someone
- verbal noun of هَجَرَ (hajara) (form I)
- Town
- to abandon, give up
- to migrate
- something excellent in its class; one who walks feebly, as though weak or heavily burdened
- migration, emigration, immigration
- someone who parted from his family and left the country
Ge'ez
gez · 1 lemma- cultivated field, inhabited land, province, countryCompare Arabic هَجَر (hajar), Classical Syriac ܐܰܟܳܪܳܐ, Hebrew אִכָּר.
Tigrinya
ti · 1 lemma- country, landCompare Ge'ez ሃጋር (hagar, “city, village, inhabited land”).