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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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WQR وقر 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√WQR 
“root” 
▪ WQR_1 ‘to break, fracture, crack (esp. a bone)’ ↗waqara
▪ WQR_2 ‘cavity, hollow’ ↗waqr
▪ WQR_3 ‘heavy load, burden’ ↗wiqr, ‘grave, sedate, dignified’ ↗waqūr
▪ WQR_4 ‘…’ ↗…

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘a load; solemnity, respect, dignity; to be heavily pregnant; to show respect; to be hard of hearing; to exact, to take; to settle down, to be inactive, to stay at home’ 
▪ Bergsträsser1928 identified 2 meanings of the root in Sem: 1) ‘valuable, precious, dear’ and 2) ‘heavy’. These form complex WQR_3 [v3]. But are also [v1] and [v2] related to [v3], or among each other? 
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▪ Bergsträsser1928: (waqur ‘grave, sedate, dignified’) Akk waqru, Hbr yāqār ‘rare, expensive, precious, valuable, dear’; Aram ʔīqar nēqar ‘be heavy’; SAr wqr ‘honour’. The Sem root has two meanings: ‘1. valuable, precious, dear; 2. heavy’
▪ … 
See above, section CONC. 
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waqar‑ وَقَرَ , i (yaqiru) (waqr)
 
ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√WQR 
vb., I 
1 to break, fracture, crack (esp. a bone); – 2 ↗wiqr, ↗waqūr – WehrCowan1976.
 
▪ Related to other items of ↗√WQR, such as ‘cavity, hollow’ (↗waqr) and ‘heavy load, burden’ (↗wiqr), ‘grave, sedate, dignified’ (↗waqūr)? 
▪ … 
… 
▪ See above, section CONC. 
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▪ For other items of the root, see ↗waqr, ↗wiqr, ↗waqūr, and, for the whole picture, ↗√WQR. 
waqr وَقْر , pl. wuqūr 
ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√WQR 
n. 
cavity, hollow – WehrCowan1976.
 
▪ Related to other items of ↗√WQR, such as ‘to break, fracture, crack (esp. a bone)’ (↗waqara), ‘heavy load, burden’ (↗wiqr), and ‘grave, sedate, dignified’ (↗waqūr)? 
▪ … 
… 
See above, section CONC. 
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►waqraẗ, n.f., cavity, hollow.

▪ For other items of the root, see ↗waqara, ↗wiqr, ↗waqūr, and, for the whole picture, ↗√WQR. 
wiqr وِقْر , pl. ʔawqār 
ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√WQR 
n. 
heavy load, burden – WehrCowan1976.
 
▪ The item seems to be the non-figurative twin of the value ‘grave, sedate, dignified’ and derivatives, cf. ↗waqūr).
▪ Related to other items of ↗√WQR, such as ‘to break, fracture, crack (esp. a bone)’ (↗waqara) and ‘cavity, hollow’ (↗waqr)? 
▪ … 
▪ Bergsträsser1928: (waqur ‘grave, sedate, dignified’) Akk waqru, Hbr yāqār ‘rare, expensive, precious, valuable, dear’; Aram ʔīqar nēqar ‘be heavy’; SAr wqr ‘honour’. The Sem root has two meanings: ‘1. valuable, precious, dear; 2. heavy’
 
▪ See above, section CONC.
 
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►ʔawqara, vb. IV, 1 to load, burden, overload (a beast of burden); 2 to oppress, weigh heavily (upon s.o.); 3 to be overloaden with fruit (tree): *Š‑stem, caus.

▪ For figurative use of ‘heavy’ in the sense of ‘grave, dignified, sedate; venerable’, see ↗waqūr. – For other (related?) items of the root, cf. ↗waqara and ↗waqr, as well as, for the whole picture, ↗√WQR. 
waqūr وَقور 
ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√WQR 
adj. 
1a grave, sedate; 1b dignified; 1c venerable, reverend – WehrCowan1976.
 
▪ Etymologically, ‘grave, sedate, dignified’ and derived meanings seem to be figurative use of ‘heavy load, burden’ (↗wiqr) or the result of a semantic shift from Sem *‘precious, valuable’.
▪ Related to other items of ↗√WQR, such as ‘to break, fracture, crack (esp. a bone)’ (↗waqara) and ‘cavity, hollow’ (↗waqr)?
▪ … 
▪ … 
▪ Bergsträsser1928: (waqur ‘grave, sedate, dignified’) Akk waqru, Hbr yāqār ‘rare, expensive, precious, valuable, dear’; Aram ʔīqar nēqar ‘be heavy’; SAr wqr ‘honour’. The Sem root has two meanings: ‘1. valuable, precious, dear; 2. heavy’
▪ …
 
▪ See above, section CONC.
 
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►waqara, i (yaqiru) (waqr), vb. I, 1 ↗waqara; – 2a to be settled, certain, an established fact; 2bto stay, remain: denom. from obs. †waqur ‘grave, heavy’ ? | waqara fī nafsih\ḫaladih, expr., to him it was an established fact (ʔanna that…); waqarat il‑ṣūraẗ fī nafsih, expr., the picture stood vividly before his mental eye.
►waqura, u (yawquru) (waqār, waqāraẗ), vb. I, to be dignified, sedate, staid, grave: denom. from obs. †waqur ‘grave, heavy’ ?
►waqqara, vb. II, 1 to respect, honor, revere, reverence; 2 to render grave or sedate: D‑stem, caus.
►ʔawqara, vb. IV, 1 to load, burden, overload (a beast of burden); 2 to oppress, weigh heavily (upon s.o.); 3 to be overloaden with fruit (tree): *Š‑stem, caus.

►waqār, n., 1a gravity, sobriety, dignity, deportment commanding respect; 1b sedateness, dignified bearing
►tawaqqur, n., dignified bearing: vn. V.
►muwaqqar, adj., 1a respected, held in respect; 1b venerable, reverend: PP II.

▪ For the item’s non-figurative twin, see ↗wiqr ‘heavy load, burden’. – For other (related?) items of the root, cf. ↗waqara and ↗waqr, as well as, for the whole picture, ↗√WQR. 
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