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فَجْر
dawn /ˈfadʒr/
nounB1#2400 most common
Also: daybreak, the dawn prayer (in Islamic practice)
Example sentences
أستيقظ في الفجر.
I wake up at dawn.
صلاة الفجر هي أول صلاة في اليوم.
The dawn prayer is the first prayer of the day.
يبدأ الفجر قبل شروق الشمس بقليل.
Dawn begins a little before sunrise.
كان ضوء الفجر يتسلل ببطء عبر النافذة.
The light of dawn was slowly creeping through the window.
وقف على الشرفة يتأمل الفجر وهو يبدد ظلام الليل.
He stood on the balcony, contemplating dawn as it dispelled the darkness of night.
يقسم الله في سورة الفجر بالفجر وليالٍ عشر.
In Surat al-Fajr, God swears by the dawn and ten nights.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | فَجْرٌ | فُجُورٌ |
| Genitive | فَجْرٍ | فُجُورٍ |
| Accusative | فَجْراً | فُجُوراً |
| Vocative | يا فَجْرُ | يا فُجُورُ |
Word family
فجّر (fajjara)to blow up, cause to explode
انفجار (infijar)explosion
تفجير (tafjir)detonation, bombing
فاجر (fajir)immoral, dissolute person
فجور (fujur)immorality, depravity
Etymology
Fajr comes from the Arabic triliteral root f-j-r, which carries the sense of splitting or bursting something open, as water gushes from a spring. Dawn is named for this same image: light breaking open the dark sky. The word is a native Semitic formation, not a borrowing.
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