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 t— banquet, feast, festive meal
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Northwest Semitic
Ugaritic𐎖𐎗𐎚𐎖 𐎗 𐎚— city
Canaanite
Hebrewקֶרֶתק ר ת— city, town, settlement
Phoenician𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕𐤒 𐤓 𐤕
Punic𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕𐤒 𐤓 𐤕
Aramaic
Imperial Aramaicקַרתָּאק ר ת— city
Syriacܒܩܪܬܐܩ ܪ ܬ— emphatic plural of ܒܩܪܐ
Assyrian NAܩܲܪܬ݂ܵܐ ܝܠܵܗ̇ܩ ܪ ܬ— It is cold
Arabic
Arabicقَرَتَق ر ت— to 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- banquet, feast, festive mealFrom qerûm (“to call, invite”).
Ugaritic
irregular reflexug · 1 lemma- city
Phoenician
irregular reflexphn · 1 lemmaPunic
irregular reflexpun · 1 lemmaImperial Aramaic
arc · 2 lemmas- cityHighly 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
- derivedנטורי קרתא
- cold, coldness
Classical Syriac
syc · 1 lemma- emphatic plural of ܒܩܪܐ
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
aii · 1 lemma- It is coldLiterally, “She/It is (the) cold”
Hebrew
he · 7 lemmas- city, town, settlementCognate with Phoenician 𐤒𐤓𐤕 (qrt, “city”) (whence Carthage), Arabic قرية (qarya), and Classical Syriac ܩܪܝܬܐ.
- Kiryat Gat (a city in Israel)
- Kiryat Arba, an Israeli Settlement in the West Bank on the outskirts of HebronFrom קִרְיָה (kiryá, “city, town”) + אַרְבַּע (arbá, “four”), literally “City of Four”. See Kiryat Arba for meaning of "four".
- Kiryas Tosh (a neighbourhood of Boisbriand, Quebec, Canada)
- climate controlבַּקָּרָה (bakará, “control”) + אַקְלִים (aklím, “climate”), calque of English climate control
- Kiryat Shmona (a city in Israel)
- 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- to bruise, for blood to dry up under the surface of skin, to be contused