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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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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)?
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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’
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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. 
WQʕ وقع 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 22May2023
√WQʕ 
“root” 
▪ WQʕ_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ WQʕ_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ WQʕ_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘calamity, war, battle; to fall, befall, occur; to alight upon, guess, expect, gossip, come face-to-face with; (of rain) to fall sporadically’ 
▪ From Ar root √WQʕ ‘to fall’ – Huehnergard2011.
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl Vega, from Ar (an-nasr al-) ↗wāqiʕ ‘(the) falling (eagle)’, from ↗wāqiʕ ‘falling’, PA of ↗waqaʕa ‘to fall’. 
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WQF وقف 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√WQF 
“root” 
▪ WQF_1 ‘to stand, stand still; to stand up, rise’ ↗waqafa
▪ WQF_2 ‘…’ ↗…

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘to stand, to erect; to stop; to acquaint o.s. with s.th., to inform, to let know; to become silent, to pause, to be reticent; to fall into dispute; to elucidate, to make clear; bracelet, anklet’ 
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