ب ش ر

ب ش ر • (b-š-r)

1. related to flesh, complexion of the skin
2. hence, related to expressed joy

• Form I: بَشِرَ‎ (bašira, “to rejoice”), بَشَرَ‎ (bašara, “to rejoice”)
  • Verbal noun: بَشَر‎ (bašar)
  • Active participle: بَاشِر‎ (bāšir)
  • Passive participle: مَبْشُور‎ (mabšūr)
• Form I: بَشَرَ‎ (bašara, “to peel”)
  • Verbal noun: بَشْر‎ (bašr)
  • Active participle: بَاشِر‎ (bāšir)
  • Passive participle: مَبْشُور‎ (mabšūr)
• Form II: بَشَّرَ‎ (baššara, “to bring good news”)
  • Verbal noun: تَبْشِير‎ (tabšīr)
  • Active participle: مُبَشِّر‎ (mubaššir)
  • Passive participle: مُبَشَّر‎ (mubaššar)
• Form III: بَاشَرَ‎ (bāšara, “to carry out, to perform”)
  • Verbal noun: مُبَاشَرَة‎ (mubāšara), بِشَار‎ (bišār)
  • Active participle: مُبَاشِر‎ (mubāšir)
  • Passive participle: مُبَاشَر‎ (mubāšar)
• Form IV: أَبْشَرَ‎ (ʾabšara, “to rejoice upon; to make beautiful and bright”)
  • Verbal noun: إِبْشَار‎ (ʾibšār)
  • Active participle: مُبْشِر‎ (mubšir)
  • Passive participle: مُبْشَر‎ (mubšar)
• Form V: تَبَشَّرَ‎ (tabaššara, “to rejoice”)
  • Verbal noun: تَبَشُّر‎ (tabaššur)
  • Active participle: مُتَبَشِّر‎ (mutabaššir)
• Form VI: تَبَاشَرَ‎ (tabāšara, “to announce a joyful event to each other”)
  • Verbal noun: تَبَاشُر‎ (tabāšur)
  • Active participle: مُتَبَاشِر‎ (mutabāšir)
• Form VII: اِنْبَشَرَ‎ (inbašara, “to be peeled, to be pared”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْبِشَار‎ (inbišār)
  • Active participle: مُنْبَشِر‎ (munbašir)
• Form X: اِسْتَبْشَرَ‎ (istabšara, “to rejoice upon”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِبْشَار‎ (istibšār)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَبْشِر‎ (mustabšir)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَبْشَر‎ (mustabšar)

• بَشَر‎ (bašar, “skin; human”)
• بُشْرَى‎ (bušrā, “good news”)
• بِشْر‎ (bišr, “cheerfulness, joy”)
• بِشَارَة‎ (bišāra, “good announcement”)
• بَشِير‎ (bašīr, “who announces joyful events; fair, sheen, of a gladdening appearance”)
  • أَبْشَر‎ (ʾabšar, “fairer, sheener”)
• بَشَارَة‎ (bašāra, “elegance of form or features”)
• بُشَارَة‎ (bušāra, “what is pared off of skin”)

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “ب ش ر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 88–89
• Freytag, Georg (1830), “ب ش ر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 124–125
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ب ش ر”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 128–130
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ب ش ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 207–208
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “ب ش ر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 125
• Wahrmund, Adolf (1887), “ب ش ر”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache (in German), volume 1, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, pages 217–218
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ب ش ر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 90–91