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عمر

Pronunciation: /ʕa.ma.ra/

“عمر” is an Arabic word. Its 18 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to live long, to be long-lived
  2. to fill with life, to cause to thrive, to make prosperous
  3. to inhabit, to live, to dwell
  4. to fill, to pervade
  5. to reign
  6. to build, to erect, to construct
  7. to rebuild, to restore, to reconstruct
  8. to thrive, to prosper, to flourish, to flower, to bloom
  9. to be inhabited, to be peopled, to be populated
  10. to be civilized, to be cultivated
  11. to be full, to be filled
  12. to prolong life, to grant long life
  13. to populate, to people
  14. to rebuild, to reconstruct
  15. to repair, to restore, to overhaul, to refurbish, to recondition

proper noun

  1. ʿUmar ibn al-Ḵaṭṭāb, recognized as the Islamic prophet's second rightly-guided successor in Sunni Islam

noun

  1. life as a period of time, length of life, lifespan, lifetime
  2. age

Etymology

From the Arabic triliteral root ع م ر (ʿayn - mīm - rā), from which are rendered terms relating to the granting, extension and duration of life, to maintenance in various significations, and to increase in general. See https://corpus.quran.com/qurandictionary.jsp?q=Emr

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