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n g r

29 lemmas · 8 languages
soundAll three consonants are regularT Job.20.28
Themes:carpenter·5carpentry·4hungary·3hungarian·2male· ذَكَر · זָכָר·2
POS shape:noun·16verb·9name·2adj·2

This root is attested across 8 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

*n-g-rProto-Semitic
East Semitic
Akkadiannāgirumn g r— town crier, herald
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Northwest Semitic
Canaanite
Hebrewנַגָּרנ ג ר— carpenter: person skilled at carpentry
Aramaic
Imperial Aramaicנגראנ ג ר— carpenter
Syriacܢܵܓܲܪܵܐܢ ܓ ܪ— prolonger
Assyrian NAܢܲܪܓ݂ܵܐܢ ܓ ܪ— axe
Arabic
Arabicنَجَرَن ج ر— to make hot, to heat
South Semitic
Ethio-Semitic
Amharicነገርነ ገ ረ— thing
Tigrinyaነገረነ ገ ረ— to tell

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

Akkadian

akk · 1 lemma
  • nouninferredWiktionary ↗
    town crier, herald
    From Sumerian 𒂆/𒂇 (nimgir, nig̃ir /⁠nig̃ir⁠/).

Imperial Aramaic

arc · 1 lemma

Classical Syriac

syc · 5 lemmas
  • nāgarrānounattestedWiktionary ↗
    prolonger
    From the root ܢ ܓ ܪ related to prolonging.
  • nounattestedWiktionary ↗
    length, duration, long time
    From the root ܢ ܓ ܪ related to prolonging.
  • naggārānouninferredWiktionary ↗
    carpenter
    From Akkadian 𒉄 (NAGAR /⁠naggāru⁠/), from Sumerian 𒉄 (nagar). Compare Arabic نَجَّار (najjār) and Hebrew נַגָּר (naggār).
  • neḡrānouninferredWiktionary ↗
    rare form of ܪܸܓ݂ܠܵܐ (reḡlā)
  • nouninferredWiktionary ↗
    carpentry
    From ܢܓܪܐ (naggārā, “carpenter”), from Akkadian 𒉄 (naggāru [NAGAR]), from Sumerian 𒉄 (nagar) + the abstract noun ending -ܘܬܐ (-ūṯā). Compare Hebrew נַגָּרוּת (naggārûṯ).

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

aii · 3 lemmas
  • narḡānounattestedWiktionary ↗
    axe
    Inherited from Aramaic נַרְגָּא (nargā), related to ܢܲܓܵܪܵܐ (naggārā, “carpenter”) through metathesis.
  • naggārānouninferredWiktionary ↗
    carpenter
    From Aramaic [Term?], from Akkadian 𒉄 (NAGAR /⁠naggāru⁠/), from Sumerian 𒉄 (nagar). Compare Arabic نَجَّار (najjār) and Hebrew נַגָּר (naggār).
  • naggārānameinferredWiktionary ↗
    a surname originating as an occupation
    From Aramaic [Term?], from Akkadian 𒉄 (NAGAR /⁠naggāru⁠/), from Sumerian 𒉄 (nagar). Compare Arabic نَجَّار (najjār) and Hebrew נַגָּר (naggār).

Hebrew

he · 8 lemmas
  • nagárnounattested✡︎ m. Eruv. 10:10Wiktionary ↗
    carpenter: person skilled at carpentry
  • nagarútnounattestedT Job.20.28Wiktionary ↗
    carpentry
  • enjaránouninferredWiktionary ↗
    injera
    From Amharic እንጀራ (ʾənǧära).
  • hungaríadjinferredWiktionary ↗
    Hungarian: of, from, or characteristic of Hungary.
  • hungarínouninferredWiktionary ↗
    A (male) Hungarian: a (male) person from Hungary.
  • nagariyánouninferredWiktionary ↗
    carpentry workshop, woodworking shop (a carpenter's workshop.)
    נַגָּר (nagár, “carpenter”) + ־ִיָּה
  • hungáryanameinferredWiktionary ↗
    Hungary (a country in Central Europe)
    From Latin Hungaria.
  • hungarítadjinferredWiktionary ↗
    feminine singular indefinite form of הוּנְגָּרִי (hungarí).

Arabic

ar · 8 lemmas

Amharic

am · 2 lemmas

Tigrinya

ti · 1 lemma

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

Compare two languages side-by-side

akk ↔ arcakk ↔ sycakk ↔ aiiakk ↔ heakk ↔ ar