وتر

Arabic

Root
و ت ر (w-t-r)

Verb

وَتَرَ • (watara) I, non-past يَتِرُ‎ (yatiru)

  1. to string (as a bow), to provide with a string
  2. to wrong, to harm, to cheat, to dupe

Conjugation

Verb

وَتَّرَ • (wattara) II, non-past يُوَتِّرُ‎ (yuwattiru)

  1. to stretch, to strain, to draw tight, to pull taut

Conjugation

Adjective

وَتْر or وِتْر • (watr or witr)

  1. uneven
  2. odd (numbers)

Declension

Noun

وَتَر • (watar) m (plural أَوْتَار (ʔawtār))

  1. string
  2. (anatomy) sinew, tendon
  3. (geometry, music) chord
  4. (geometry) hypotenuse

Declension

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: vətər

Noun

وَتْر • (watr) m

  1. verbal noun of وَتَرَ (watara) (form I)

Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “وتر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 432
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “وتر”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1480
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “وتر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “وتر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1372

Urdu

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic وتر (watar).

Pronunciation

Noun

وتر • (vatar) m (Hindi spelling वतर)

  1. hypotenuse

Etymology 2

From Arabic وِتْر (witr).

Pronunciation

Noun

وِتْر • (vitr) m (Hindi spelling वित्र)

  1. odd, alone
  2. (Islam) Witr, a salah done after Isha and before Fajr

References

Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “وتر”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.

Ushojo

Noun

وتر (vatar)

  1. threshing the field before ploughing
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