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Arabic root

ع-ي-ر

Ayn-Ya-Ra

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About this root

Ayn-Ya-Ra (ع-ي-ر) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: miʿyār (standard / criterion).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 3 times in 3 verses, across 1 of the 114 suras. The first is in 12:70.

Themes: Academic Formal

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
مِعْيَار
miʿyār
standard / criterionnoun, B2Critical Thinking

In the Quran

فَلَمَّا جَهَّزَهُم بِجَهَازِهِمْ جَعَلَ ٱلسِّقَايَةَ فِى رَحْلِ أَخِيهِ ثُمَّ أَذَّنَ مُؤَذِّنٌ أَيَّتُهَا ٱلْعِيرُ إِنَّكُمْ لَسَـٰرِقُونَ

And when he provided them with their provision, he put the drinking-cup in his brother's saddlebag, and then a crier cried: O camel-riders! Lo! ye are surely thieves!

Quran 12:70
وَسْـَٔلِ ٱلْقَرْيَةَ ٱلَّتِى كُنَّا فِيهَا وَٱلْعِيرَ ٱلَّتِىٓ أَقْبَلْنَا فِيهَا ۖ وَإِنَّا لَصَـٰدِقُونَ

Ask the township where we were, and the caravan with which we travelled hither. Lo! we speak the truth.

Quran 12:82
وَلَمَّا فَصَلَتِ ٱلْعِيرُ قَالَ أَبُوهُمْ إِنِّى لَأَجِدُ رِيحَ يُوسُفَ ۖ لَوْلَآ أَن تُفَنِّدُونِ

When the caravan departed their father had said: Truly I am conscious of the breath of Joseph, though ye call me dotard.

Quran 12:94

Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).

Word cards with examples

B2noun
مِعْيَار
miʿyār

standard / criterion

Example
يَجِبُ الالتِزامُ بِالمَعاييرِ الدَّولِيَّة.
yajibu l-iltizāmu bi-l-maʿāyīri d-dawliyya.
International standards must be adhered to.

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