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حَرَق

to burn (something) /ˈħa.ra.qa/

verbB2#4289 most common

Also: to scorch, to set on fire, to char

Example sentences

حرقتُ الطعام.

I burned the food.

هو حرق الرسالة بالنار.

He burned the letter with fire.

الأولاد حرقوا الأوراق القديمة في الحديقة.

The kids burned the old papers in the garden.

لا تحرق نفسك، الفرن ساخن جدا.

Don't burn yourself, the oven is very hot.

حريق كبير حرق معظم الغابة أمس.

A big fire burned most of the forest yesterday.

كانت الذكريات المؤلمة تحرق قلبه كلما مرّ بذلك الشارع.

The painful memories burned his heart every time he passed that street.

Conjugation

	Present Active	Simple Past Active	Simple Future Active
1sg	أحرق	حرقتُ	سأحرق
2sg	تحرق	حرقتَ	ستحرق
3sg	يحرق	حرق	سيحرق
1pl	نحرق	حرقنا	سنحرق
2pl	تحرقون	حرقتم	ستحرقون
3pl	يحرقون	حرقوا	سيحرقون

Word family

حريقfire, blaze

حارقburning, scorching

محروقburnt

احتراقcombustion

محرقةincinerator; the Holocaust

Etymology

حَرَق comes from the triliteral Semitic root ح-ر-ق (H-R-Q), which carries the core idea of burning or scorching across its verb forms. حَرَقَ is the basic Form I (faʿala) shape, the plainest way to say that someone burned something. A related Form IV, أَحْرَقَ, exists with roughly the same causative sense and is common in formal Arabic, while colloquial dialects lean on the Form I verb shown here.

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