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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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*ḤR‑ (disambig.) ـ حرـ 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ḤR‑ 
Polyvalent 2-cons. "root nucleus" 
▪ *ḤR-_1 ‘to be hot, boiling, to burn; to be angry, furious, enraged’ ↗ḤR- (1)
▪ *ḤR-_2 ‘to scratch’ ↗ḤR- (2)

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘heat, thirst, to become hot, to intensify; volcanic rocky land; free person, to liberate, to set free; the best of anything, to dedicate to the service of God; silk, to set right’ 
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*¹ḤR‑ حرـ 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ḤR‑ 
2-cons. "root nucleus" 
Basic meaning *‘to be hot, boiling, to burn’ – DRS 9 (2010). 
According to DRS 9 (2010), Sem *-ḤR- (1) is a 2-consonantal basis with the meaning ‘to be hot, boiling, to boil’, hence also (figurative use) ‘to be angry, furious’. From this basis, several 3-radical roots are formed by extension, see section DERIV below. 
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► (lengthening of R2) > ↗ḤRː (ḤRR)_1, ↗ḥarr ‘heat, hot’
► + *-B > ↗ḥarb ‘war; fight, combat’, ↗ḥarbaẗ ‘lance, spear’, perh. also ↗ḥirbāʔ ‘chameleon’
► + *-Ṣ > ↗ḥirṣ ‘greed; desire; aspiration; avarice’
► + *-Ḍ > ↗ḥarraḍa ‘to goad, prod, spur on, egg on, incite, rouse, provoke, instigate, stir up, agitate’
► + *-Q > ↗ḥaraqa (i) ‘to burn’
► + *-K > ↗ḥarik ‘lively, active, brisk, agile, nimble’
► + *-M- > ↗ʔaḥmarᵘ ‘red’
► + *-Y > ↗taḥarrà ‘to seek, pursue, strive, aspire’
 
*²ḤR‑ حرـ 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ḤR‑ 
2-cons. "root nucleus" 
Basic meaning *‘to scrape’ – Ehret1989. 
According to Ehret1989, *ḤR- (2) is a pre-pSem 2-consonantal basis with the meaning ‘to scrape’ from which several 3-radical roots are formed by extension, see section DERIV below. 
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► + extendative *‑b > †ḥaraba ‘to sharpen’, ↗ḥarb ‘war; fight, combat’, ↗ḥarbaẗ ‘lance, spear’
► + durative *‑t > †ḥarata ‘to rub hard’ (still registered in Hava1899)
► + diffusive *‑ṯ > ↗ḥaraṯa ‘to till and sow the ground, plow, cultivate’
► + venitive *‑ɬ > ↗ḥaraša ‘to scratch, †wound with the claws’
► + andative *‑ḳ > ↗ḥaraqa u ‘to rub two things against each other’
 
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