ائتمر

• IPA^(key): /iʔ.ta.ma.ra/

اِئْتَمَرَ • (iʔtamara) VIII (non-past يَأْتَمِرُ (yaʔtamiru), verbal noun اِئْتِمَار (iʔtimār))

1. to deliberate (about) [with بِ (bi)]
2. to conspire (against) [with بِ (bi) or عَلَى (ʕalā)]
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 28:20:

     وَجَاءَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَقْصَى ٱلْمَدِينَةِ يَسْعَى قَالَ يَا مُوسَى إِنَّ ٱلْمَلَأَ يَأْتَمِرُونَ بِكَ لِيَقْتُلُوكَ فَٱخْرُجْ إِنِّي لَكَ مِنَ ٱلنَّاصِحِينَ

     wajāʔa rajulun min ʔaqṣā l-madīnati yasʕā qāla yā mūsā ʔinna l-malaʔa yaʔtamirūna bika li-yaqtulūka fa-ḵruj ʔinnī laka mina n-nāṣiḥīna

     And there came a man, rushing from the farthest end of the city. He said, “O Moses! The chiefs are actually conspiring against you to put you to death, so leave ˹the city˺. I really advise you ˹to do so˺.”

     Translation by Mustafa Khattab

3. to command one another
   • 7th century CE, Sunan Ibn Mājah, 36:89:

     ائْتَمِرُوا بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَتَنَاهَوْا عَنِ الْمُنْكَرِ

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