The Arabic root ص-ح-ر (s-h-r)

Form I verb صَحِرَ: to be tawny

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

Most common

Noun

صَحْرَاء

desert

Verbs and the nouns that come from them

صَحِرَ · present يَصْحَرُ

Form I · The plain action

to be tawny, to be light brown

صَحَر

Verbal noun

أَصْحَر

Active participle

أَصْحَرَ · present يُصْحِرُ

Form IV · Causative

to go into the desert; to be wide, vast; to be blind on one eye, to be one-eyed

إِصْحَار

Verbal noun

مُصْحِر

Active participle

تَصَحَّرَ · present يَتَصَحَّرُ

Form V · Reflexive of Form II

the process of desertification

تَصَحُّر

Verbal noun

desertification

مُتَصَحِّر

Active participle

Other nouns and adjectives

صَحْرَاء

Noun

desert

صَحْرَاوِيّ

Adjective

desert

صَحْرَاوِيّ

Noun

Sahrawi

صُحْرَة

Noun

tawny colour

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