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أَشْقَر
blond (a fair-haired person) /ˈʔaʃ.qar/
nounB1#2532 most common
Also: fair-haired person, sandy-haired, flaxen-haired one
Example sentences
هُوَ أَشْقَر.
He is blond.
أَخِي أَشْقَرُ الشَّعْر.
My brother has blond hair.
رَأَيْتُ رَجُلاً أَشْقَرَ فِي الْحَدِيقَةِ.
I saw a blond man in the park.
كَانَتْ طُفُولَتُهُ مَعَ صَدِيقٍ أَشْقَرَ يَسْكُنُ بِجِوَارِهِمْ.
His childhood was with a blond friend who lived next door to them.
يَتَمَيَّزُ سُكَّانُ شَمَالِ أُورُوبَّا غَالِبًا بِالشَّعْرِ الْأَشْقَرِ وَالْعُيُونِ الزَّرْقَاءِ.
The people of northern Europe are often marked by blond hair and blue eyes.
عَلَى الرَّغْمِ مِنْ أَنَّ أَخَاهُ الْأَشْقَرَ كَانَ الْأَصْغَرَ سِنًّا، إِلَّا أَنَّهُ كَانَ الْأَكْثَرَ نُضْجًا بَيْنَ إِخْوَتِهِ.
Even though his blond brother was the youngest, he was the most mature of his siblings.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | أَشْقَرُ | شُقْرٌ |
| Genitive | أَشْقَرَ | شُقْرٍ |
| Accusative | أَشْقَرَ | شُقْراً |
| Vocative | يا أَشْقَرُ | يا شُقْرُ |
Word family
شَقْراءblonde (woman)
شُقْرَةblondness, fairness of hair
شَقِرَto be or become blond/fair
شُقْرblonds (plural)
Etymology
أشقر comes from the Semitic root ش-ق-ر (sh-q-r), tied to a reddish-fair coloring of hair or skin. It is built on the classical Arabic color-adjective pattern أَفْعَل (af'al), the same pattern behind أحمر (red) and أزرق (blue). The feminine شقراء and the plural شُقْر show the vowel shifts typical of this pattern. The word functions as an adjective but is regularly used on its own as a noun for a blond person.
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