جعفر

Arabic

Etymology

An augmentation of the root ج ع ف (j-ʕ-f) meaning a to pull or uproot, to wash away, to overturn or rip from foundations, a torrent that carries things away; possibly blended with the root ج ف ر (j-f-r) denoting to be swollen, to be filled up, hence a full or flooded riverbed. The first root is potentially a dialect variant of the root ج ف ء (j-f-ʔ) also denoting the washing away of objects from a valley full of water, to sweep off or carry away, to pull or uproot.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒaʕ.far/

Noun

جَعْفَر • (jaʕfar) m (plural جَعَافِر (jaʕāfir))

  1. full river
    1. camel full of milk
  2. brook, creek, rivulet
    • 1960, جَوَّاد عَلِي (jawwād ʕalī), المفصل في تاريخ العرب قبل الإسلام [The Detailed History of the Arabs before Islam], 1, 4:
      ليس في جزيرة العرب انهار كبيرة بالمعنى المعروف من لفظة نهر مثل نهر دجلة أو الفرات أو النيل، بل فيها أنهار مغيرة أو جعافر.
      In the Arabian Peninsula there aren’t really rivers of river names like the river “Tigris” or the “Euphrat” or the “Nile”, but it has diverse rivers or rivulets.
  3. flooded wadi, torrent

Declension
Declension of noun جَعْفَر (jaʕfar)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal جَعْفَر
jaʕfar		 الْجَعْفَر
al-jaʕfar		 جَعْفَر
jaʕfar
Nominative جَعْفَرٌ
jaʕfarun		 الْجَعْفَرُ
al-jaʕfaru		 جَعْفَرُ
jaʕfaru
Accusative جَعْفَرًا
jaʕfaran		 الْجَعْفَرَ
al-jaʕfara		 جَعْفَرَ
jaʕfara
Genitive جَعْفَرٍ
jaʕfarin		 الْجَعْفَرِ
al-jaʕfari		 جَعْفَرِ
jaʕfari
Dual Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal جَعْفَرَيْن
jaʕfarayn		 الْجَعْفَرَيْن
al-jaʕfarayn		 جَعْفَرَيْ
jaʕfaray
Nominative جَعْفَرَانِ
jaʕfarāni		 الْجَعْفَرَانِ
al-jaʕfarāni		 جَعْفَرَا
jaʕfarā
Accusative جَعْفَرَيْنِ
jaʕfarayni		 الْجَعْفَرَيْنِ
al-jaʕfarayni		 جَعْفَرَيْ
jaʕfaray
Genitive جَعْفَرَيْنِ
jaʕfarayni		 الْجَعْفَرَيْنِ
al-jaʕfarayni		 جَعْفَرَيْ
jaʕfaray
Plural basic broken plural diptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal جَعَافِر
jaʕāfir		 الْجَعَافِر
al-jaʕāfir		 جَعَافِر
jaʕāfir
Nominative جَعَافِرُ
jaʕāfiru		 الْجَعَافِرُ
al-jaʕāfiru		 جَعَافِرُ
jaʕāfiru
Accusative جَعَافِرَ
jaʕāfira		 الْجَعَافِرَ
al-jaʕāfira		 جَعَافِرَ
jaʕāfira
Genitive جَعَافِرَ
jaʕāfira		 الْجَعَافِرِ
al-jaʕāfiri		 جَعَافِرِ
jaʕāfiri

Proper noun

جَعْفَر • (jaʕfar)

  1. a male given name, Jafar, Jaafar, Ja'far
  2. Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad aṣ-Ṣādiq, a revered 8th-century Muslim scholar and the sixth Imam for Twelver and ʾIsmāʿīliyy Shia Muslims, after whom the Jaʿfari school of jurisprudence is named.

Declension
Declension of noun جَعْفَر (jaʕfar)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal — جَعْفَر
jaʕfar		 —
Nominative — جَعْفَرٌ
jaʕfarun		 —
Accusative — جَعْفَرًا
jaʕfaran		 —
Genitive — جَعْفَرٍ
jaʕfarin		 —

Derived terms
  • جَعْفَرِيّ (jaʕfariyy)

References
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “جعفر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 198
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “جعفر”, 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, page 284
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “جعفر”, 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 Cie, page 300
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “جعفر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 430
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “جعفر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 186

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَعْفَر (jaʕfar).

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [d͡ʒäʔ.fǽɾ]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [d͡ʒɑː.fǽɾ]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [d͡ʒɔː.fǽɾ]
 

Readings
Classical reading? ja'far
Dari reading? ja'far
Iranian reading? ja'far
Tajik reading? jaʾfar

Proper noun
Dari جعفر
Iranian Persian
Tajik Ҷаъфар

جعفر • (ja'far)

  1. a male given name, Jafar, from Arabic
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