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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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bāḫiraẗ باخِرة , pl. bawāḫirᵘ 
ID 055 • Sw – • BP 6798 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√BḪR 
n.f. 
steamer, steamship – WehrCowan1979. 
Properly a PA I, f., akin to ↗buḫār ‘vapor, fume; steam’. The word is a neologism, probably calqued from Engl steamer, presumably during the 1890s. 
▪ Not yet lexicalized as an item in its own right in ClassAr (no entry in Lane).
▪ Kazimirski1860, Bustānī1867, Steingass1884, Wahrmund1887: Ø
▪ Hava1899 has bāḫiraẗ ‘steamer, steamboat’ and markib buḫārī ‘steamer’ 
↗buḫār 
▪ ↗buḫār.
▪ The word does not appear in dictionaries of Ar before the late 1890s (the first appearance in my sources is Hava1899). It is probably calqued from Engl steamer
▪ … 
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► buwayḫiraẗ, n.f., small steamboat: dimin.

For other values of the root cf. ↗√BḪR and ↗baḫūr. 

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