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ن-ك-ر

The Arabic root ن-ك-ر (n-k-r)

Form I verb نَكِرَ: to feel unfamiliar about

12 words in the dictionary are built from ن-ك-ر, including verbs in Forms I, II, IV, V, X. Each verb is listed with the nouns that come from it: its verbal noun (masdar), its participles, and words derived from it.

Most common

Verb · Form IV
to deny
Noun
نَكِرَة
indefinite
Noun
إِنْكَار
refusal
Verb · Form V
تَنَكَّرَ
to dress up

Verbs and the nouns that come from them

نَكِرَ · present يَنْكَرُ
Form I · The plain action

to feel unfamiliar about; to deny

نَكَر
Verbal noun
نُكْر
Verbal noun
grave
نُكُور
Verbal noun
نَكِير
Verbal noun
نَكِر
Active participle
نَاكِر
Active participle
مَنْكُور
Passive participle
نَكُرَ · present يَنْكُرُ
Form I · The plain action

to become difficult and intense (of an issue); to be objectionable and abhorrent (of an issue); to be ambiguous, to be indefinite (of an issue)

نَكَارَة
Verbal noun
نُكُر
Active participle
نَكَّرَ · present يُنَكِّرُ
Form II · Causative or intensive

to mask; to use (a noun) as indefinite

تَنْكِير
Verbal noun
مُنَكِّر
Active participle
مُنَكَّر
Passive participle
أَنْكَرَ · present يُنْكِرُ
Form IV · Causative

to deny

إِنْكَار
Verbal noun
refusal
مُنْكِر
Active participle
denier
مُنْكَر
Passive participle
immoral behaviour
تَنَكَّرَ · present يَتَنَكَّرُ
Form V · Reflexive of Form II

to dress up, to disguise oneself; to shut oneself off, to behave dismissingly

تَنَكُّر
Verbal noun
مُتَنَكِّر
Active participle
اِسْتَنْكَرَ · present يَسْتَنْكِرُ
Form X · Seeking or considering

to rebuke, to censure, to deplore, to condemn; to not know, to be ignorant of (someone/something); to judge in a derogatory manner, to disparage, to condemn

اِسْتِنْكَار
Verbal noun
مُسْتَنْكِر
Active participle
مُسْتَنْكَر
Passive participle

Other nouns and adjectives

نَكِرَة
Noun
indefinite

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