برر

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Arabic

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Root
ب ر ر (b r r)
6 terms

Pronunciation

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Verb

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بَرَّرَ (barrara) II (non-past يُبَرِّرُ (yubarriru), verbal noun تَبْرِير (tabrīr))

  1. to justify
    برَّرتُ تصرفاتي بأنها وطنية.‏
    I justified my actions as patriotic.
    • 1944, مُحَمَّد مَهْدِيّ اَلْجَوَاهِرِيّ [muḥammad mahdiyy al-jawāhiriyy], “أَبُو الْعَلَاء الْمَعَرِّيّ [ʔabū l-ʕalāʔ al-maʕarriyy]”, in سَعِيد عَلِيّ [saʕīd ʕaliyy], compiler, دِيوَان الْجَوَاهِرِيّ [dīwān al-jawāhiriyy], part 1, Saida, Lebanon: اَلْمَكْتَبَة اَلْعَصْرِيَّة [al-maktaba(t) al-ʕaṣriyya], published October 1967, →OCLC, page 213:
      وَرُبَّ رَاضٍ مِنَ الْحِرْمَانِ قِسْمَتَهُ / فَبَرَّرَ الصَّبْرَ وَٱلْحِرْمَانَ وَٱلسَّغَبَا
      warubba rāḍin mina l-ḥirmāni qismatahu / fabarrara ṣ-ṣabra wal-ḥirmāna was-saḡabā
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

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Mogholi

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Etymology

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From Persian برادر (berâdar, brother). Cognate to English brother.

Noun

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بِرر (birar)

  1. brother

References

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  • Shinobu Iwamura (1961) The Zirni Manuscript: A Persian-Mongolian Glossary and Grammar[1], Kyoto, Japan: Kyoto University Press

Ottoman Turkish

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Pronunciation

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Adverb

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برر (birer)

  1. distributive of بر (bir): one each, one apiece

Descendants

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  • Turkish: birer

South Levantine Arabic

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Root
ب ر ر
3 terms

Etymology

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From Arabic بَرَّرَ (barrara).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /bar.rar/, [ˈbar.rar]
  • Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

Verb

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برّر (barrar) II (present ببرّر (bibarrer))

  1. to justify

Conjugation

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    Conjugation of برّر (barrar)
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m برّرت (barrart) برّرت (barrart) برّر (barrar) برّرنا (barrarna) برّرتو (barrartu) برّرو (barraru)
f برّرتي (barrarti) برّرت (barrarat)
present m ببرّر (babarrer) بتبرّر (bitbarrer) ببرّر (bibarrer) منبرّر (minbarrer) بتبرّرو (bitbarrru) ببرّرو (bibarrru)
f بتبرّري (bitbarrri) بتبرّر (bitbarrer)
subjunctive m ابرّر (abarrer) تبرّر (tbarrer) يبرّر (ybarrer) نبرّر (nbarrer) تبرّرو (tbarrru) يبرّرو (ybarrru)
f تبرّري (tbarrri) تبرّر (tbarrer)
imperative m برّر (barrer) برّرو (barrru)
f برّري (barrri)