Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

وَقَارٌ

Root: وقر

Full Definition

وَقَارٌ Gravity, staidness, steadiness, calmness; syn. رَزَانَةٌ, and حِلْمٌ, and سَكِينَةٌ, and وَدَاعَةٌ; and تَيْقُورٌ is syn. with وَقَارٌ [in this sense], of the measure فَيْعُولٌ, originally وَيْقُورٌ, the و being changed into ت: [see 1:] or, accord. to some, it is syn. with تَوْقِيرٌ. El-'Ajjáj says, فَإِنْ يَكُنْ أَمْسَى البِلَى تَيْقُورِى i. e. امسى وَقَارِى. [And if wear, or waste, hath become the cause of my gravity, &c.: or, if it be syn. with تَوْقِيرِى, the cause of making me still, or quiet]. Some make it to be of the measure تَفْعُولٌ, like تَذْنْوبٌ, &c.
2 Also, The greatness, or majesty, of God: as in the Kur. lxxi. 12. (S. [See 1, in art. رجو.])
3 See also وَقُورٌ.


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