حقير

Arabic
Root
ح ق ر‎ (ḥ-q-r)

Etymology

فَعِيل (faʕīl)-type stative-verb derived from the active participle from the verb حَقُرَ‎ (ḥaqura, “to be low, to be despicable”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ħa.qiːr/
  • Rhymes: -iːr

Adjective

حَقِير • (ḥaqīr) (feminine حَقِيرَة‎ (ḥaqīra), masculine plural حَقِيرُونَ‎ (ḥaqīrūna) or حُقَرَاء‎ (ḥuqarāʔ) or حِقَار‎ (ḥiqār), feminine plural حَقِيرَات‎ (ḥaqīrāt) or حَقَائِر‎ (ḥaqāʔir), elative أَحْقَر‎ (ʔaḥqar))

  1. low, mean, vile
  2. small, poor, wretched, miserable, paltry
  3. despised
  4. despicable, contemptible

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Descendants
  • Azerbaijani: həqir
  • Northern Kurdish: heqîr
  • → Ottoman Turkish: حقیر‎ (hakır)
  • Swahili: hakiri

References
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “حقير”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), “حقير”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
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