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نار
fire /ˈnaːr/
nounA1#287 most common
Also: flame, blaze, hellfire
Example sentences
النَّارُ حَارَّةٌ.
The fire is hot.
أَشْعَلْنَا نَاراً فِي الْحَدِيقَةِ.
We lit a fire in the garden.
اِقْتَرَبَ الْأَطْفَالُ مِنَ النَّارِ لِيَتَدَفَّؤُوا.
The children moved closer to the fire to warm up.
اِنْتَشَرَتِ النِّيرَانُ فِي الْغَابَةِ بِسُرْعَةٍ.
The flames spread through the forest quickly.
مَنْ يَلْعَبُ بِالنَّارِ قَدْ تَحْتَرِقُ يَدُهُ.
Whoever plays with fire may burn his hand.
حَذَّرَنَا الْوَاعِظُ مِنْ نَارِ جَهَنَّمَ الَّتِي لَا تَخْبُو.
The preacher warned us of the fire of hell that never dies down.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | نَارٌ | نِيرَانٌ |
| Genitive | نَارٍ | نِيرَانٍ |
| Accusative | نَاراً | نِيرَاناً |
| Vocative | يَا نَارُ | يَا نِيرَانُ |
Word family
Etymology
Arabic نار descends from Proto-Semitic *nūr-, meaning fire or light. It shares the root n-w-r with نور, light. The same Semitic stem gives Hebrew נֵר, lamp, and Aramaic נוּרָא, fire.
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