جرجر

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ج ر ر (j-r-r) related to dragging.

Noun

جَرْجَر • (jarjar) m

(singular only, countable through آلَة (ʾāla))
  1. thresher, threshing sledge, an implement of wood in which there are revolving axles dragged along by beasts for crushing the corn
    • 2013 November 17, “آلة "الجرجر".. حصادة الماضي البعيد [The threshing sledge – the mower of yore]”, in eSyria, archived from the original on 2018-04-21:
    Synonyms: نَوْرَج (nawraj), طِرْبِيل (ṭirbīl), مِدْرَسَة (midrasa), دَرَّاسَة (darrāsa)

Declension

Descendants

  • Armenian: ջառջառ (ǰaṙǰaṙ), ջարջառ (ǰarǰaṙ), ջյառջյառ (ǰyaṙǰyaṙ), ջարջար (ǰarǰar)
    • Russian: джарджар (džardžar)
  • Azerbaijani: carcar
    • Russian: джарджар (džardžar)
  • Kurdish:
    • Northern Kurdish: cencer, cencere, cercer, cer̄cer̄, cercere
    • Central Kurdish: جەنجەڕ (cencerr)
    • Southern Kurdish: جەنجەڕ (cencerr)
  • Turkish: carcar, cercer, cancar

Verb

جَرْجَرَ (jarjara) Iq, non-past يُجَرْجِرُ‎ (yujarjiru)

  1. to drag along, to haul
    • 2016 May 11, “روحاني «يجرجر» واشنطن إلى المحاكم الدولية [Rowhâni “drags” Washington to international courts]”, in RT Arabic, archived from the original on 2016-05-12:
    • 2019 January 30, “الرميد يجرجر سفيرا سابقا إلى المحكمة [Ar-Ramīd drags a former ambassador to court]”, in Al-Yawm 24, archived from the original on 2019-01-30:
  2. to gargle, to gurgle, to drink with such a sound, to quaff
    • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 37:1:
      =
      الَّذِي يَشْرَبُ فِي آنِيَةِ الْفِضَّةِ إِنَّمَا يُجَرْجِرُ فِي بَطْنِهِ نَارَ جَهَنَّمَ
      allaḏī yašrabu fī ʾāniyati l-fiḍḍati ʾinnamā yujarjiru fī baṭni-hī nāra jahannama
      He who drinks from silver vessels quaffs the fire of hell.

Conjugation

Further reading

  • Chyet, Michael L. (2003), cencer”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 87b
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