FromProto-Semitic*ʕabar-. CompareHebrewעָבַר(ʿāḇar,“to cross”),Old South Arabian𐩲𐩨𐩧(ʿbr,“to transgress”),Akkadian𒁄(ebēru,“to cross”).

عَبَرَ• (ʕabara)I (non-pastيَعْبُرُ(yaʕburu),verbal nounعَبْر(ʕabr)orعُبُور(ʕubūr))

1. tocross, totraverse
2. toford
3. toswim(something)
4. topass over

عَبَرَ• (ʕabara)I (non-pastيَعْبُرُ(yaʕburu),verbal nounعَبْر(ʕabr)orعِبَارَة(ʕibāra))

1. (transitive) tointerpret
   • 609–632CE,Qur'an,12:43:

     يَا أَيُّهَا ٱلْمَلَأُ أَفْتُونِي فِي رُؤْيَايَ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ لِلرُّؤْيَاتَعْبُرُونَ

     yā ʔayyuhā l-malaʔu ʔaftūnī fī ruʔyāya ʔin kuntum li-r-ruʔyātaʕburūna

     O people give me your opinion about my vision if you can see through it!

عَبْر• (ʕabr) m

1. verbal noun ofعَبَرَ(ʕabara) (form I)

Adverbial accusative ofعَبْر(ʕabr,“crossing”). CompareOld South Arabian𐩲𐩨𐩧(ʿbr,“towards”).

عَبْرَ• (ʕabra)

1. across

Causative of the preceding verbعَبَرَ(ʕabara) and in the meanings of explaining, interpreting, expressing asemantic loan fromMiddle Persian[Book Pahlavi needed](wtltn'/⁠widārdan⁠/,“to cause to pass”) =Classical Persianگذاردن(guḏārdan,“to cause to pass; to clean, to purge; to put, to place”),[Book Pahlavi needed](wcʾltn'/⁠wizārdan⁠/,“to separate; to explain, to interpret, to express”) =گزاردن(gozârdan,“to cause to pass; to draw the outline of a picture; to express”).

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عَبَّرَ• (ʕabbara)II (non-pastيُعَبِّرُ(yuʕabbiru),verbal nounتَعْبِير(taʕbīr))

1. (ditransitive) toget across
   1. (obsolete,literally) to makecross, to cause topass over, toconveyacross [withبِ(bi)‘over what’]
   2. (transferred) toexpress, to put into terms[withعَنْ(ʕan)]
2. (transitive) tointerpret

• “ebēru”, inThe Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎^[1], volume4, E, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute,1958, page10
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1898) “Zum sporadischen Lautwandel in den semitischen Sprachen”, inBeiträge zur Assyriologie und semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎^[2] (in German), volume 3,→DOI,pages69–70
• Nöldeke, Theodor (1888–1892)Persische Studien (Sitzungsberichte der Kais. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse;126)‎^[3] (in German), volume 2, Vienna,→DOI,page24 fn. 2

FromArabicعَبَّرَ(ʕabbara).

• IPA^(key):/ʕab.bar/,[ˈʕab.bar]

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عبّر• (ʕabbar)II (presentبعبّر(biʕabber))

1. toexpress
2. toconsider, tocare about

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