Arabic word sheet
نَهْرٌ
River
- Type
- noun
- Root
- ن ه ر
Meaning and usage
River
It names the water that flows in its bed: a river, a stream, a brook. It is said of any watercourse, large or small.
سَبَحَ سَامِي فِي النَّهْرِ.
Sami swam in the river.
Channel, canal
It also names the trench or bed in which the water runs, including one dug to carry it.
حَفَرَ الْفَلَّاحُ نَهْرًا صَغِيرًا.
The farmer dug a small channel.
Plural
أَنْهَارٌ / أَنْهُرٌ
Word family
What the root means ن ه ر
The root carries the idea of something flowing in abundance and spreading wide. From it come the river, flowing and making flow, widening, and the daytime, when light spreads out.
to flow and cut itself a bed
نَهَرَ
to make (a liquid) flow
أَنْهَرَ
to widen, to spread out
اِسْتَنْهَرَ
daytime
opening through which water runs
مَنْهَرٌ
abundant, wide
نَهِرٌ
Synonyms
watercourse, course
مَجْرًى
Names any path along which water runs, whatever its size, without the idea of wide and plentiful water.
brook, stream
جَدْوَلٌ
Names a much smaller watercourse, often a runnel that waters a field.