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q r t

21 lemmas · 9 languages
soundAll three consonants are regular📜 Job.29.7
Themes:city· مَدِينَة · עִיר·5kiryat·4israel·3cold·2settlement·2
POS shape:noun·7verb·6name·5proper noun·2phrase·1

This root is attested across 9 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

*q-r-tProto-Semitic
East Semitic
Akkadianqerītumq r tbanquet, feast, festive meal
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Northwest Semitic
Ugaritic𐎖𐎗𐎚𐎖 𐎗 𐎚city
Canaanite
Hebrewקֶרֶתק ר תcity, town, settlement
Phoenician𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕𐤒 𐤓 𐤕
Punic𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕𐤒 𐤓 𐤕
Aramaic
Imperial Aramaicקַרתָּאק ר תcity
Syriacܒܩܪܬܐܩ ܪ ܬemphatic plural of ܒܩܪܐ
Assyrian NAܩܲܪܬ݂ܵܐ ܝܠܵܗ̇ܩ ܪ ܬIt is cold
Arabic
Arabicقَرَتَق ر تto bruise, for blood to dry up under the surface of skin, to be contused

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 ↗
    banquet, feast, festive meal
    From qerûm (“to call, invite”).

Ugaritic

irregular reflexug · 1 lemma

Phoenician

irregular reflexphn · 1 lemma

Punic

irregular reflexpun · 1 lemma

Imperial Aramaic

arc · 2 lemmas
  • qartānouninferred𐡀 tg. Onk. Gen 4:17Wiktionary ↗
    city
    Highly irregular noun: the plural inserts a /w/ in the stem, and gets the masculine suffix (although it retains feminine agreement). Sometimes the form קַרתָּא is also used as the absolute form.
    1 derivation
  • nouninferred𐡀 tg. Onk. Gen 4:17Wiktionary ↗
    cold, coldness

Classical Syriac

syc · 1 lemma

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

aii · 1 lemma
  • qarṯā ìlāhphraseinferredWiktionary ↗
    It is cold
    Literally, “She/It is (the) cold”

Hebrew

he · 7 lemmas
  • qeretnouninferred📜 Job.29.7Wiktionary ↗
    city, town, settlement
    Cognate with Phoenician 𐤒𐤓𐤕 (qrt, “city”) (whence Carthage), Arabic قرية (qarya), and Classical Syriac ܩܪܝܬܐ.
  • kiryat gatnameinferredWiktionary ↗
    Kiryat Gat (a city in Israel)
  • kiryát arbánameinferredWiktionary ↗
    Kiryat Arba, an Israeli Settlement in the West Bank on the outskirts of Hebron
    From קִרְיָה (kiryá, “city, town”) + אַרְבַּע (arbá, “four”), literally “City of Four”. See Kiryat Arba for meaning of "four".
  • nameinferredWiktionary ↗
    Kiryas Tosh (a neighbourhood of Boisbriand, Quebec, Canada)
  • bakarát aklímnouninferredWiktionary ↗
    climate control
    בַּקָּרָה (bakará, “control”) + אַקְלִים (aklím, “climate”), calque of English climate control
  • kiryat shmonanameinferredWiktionary ↗
    Kiryat Shmona (a city in Israel)
  • kiryát unsdórfnameinferredWiktionary ↗
    Kiryat Unsdorf (a neighbourhood of Jerusalem, Israel)
    From קִרְיַת־ (kiryát, “town (of)”) + אוּנְסְדּוֹרְף (unsdórf, “Unsdorf (from Yiddish אונסדאָרףֿ (unsdorf), the Yiddish name for Huncovce, Slovakia)”).

Arabic

ar · 6 lemmas

Related rootsshare 2 of 3 consonants with q-r-t

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