تارة

Arabic

Etymology 1

Of a little-developed root. أَتَارَ (ʔatāra, “to repeat”, form IV) is clearly denominal, and about تَارَ (tāra, “to run, to flow (of blood)”) even the Classical Arabic lexicographers have had little to say other than that it is obsolete, and as the examples of آنَ (ʔāna), حَانَ (ḥāna), أَنَى (ʔanā) illustrate, the base stem too tends to be secondary in relation to a time word. In spite of طَوْر (ṭawr, “time”) not directly related to it but probably a borrowing from Aramaic, compare Jewish Literary Aramaic תּוּר (tōr, “to go around (a border)”),^[1] rather than cognate to Arabic ث و ر (ṯ w r) or د و ر (d w r) (whence Arabic دَوْرَة (dawra, “period”))^[2] denominal from תּוֹרָא (tōrā, “line, row; cord, band”), which means this word is the same word as تُرّ (turr, “plumb line”), figurative uses from drawing a line forth and back as times pass—compare also تَوّ (taww, “a knot; an instance”). Exactly the meanings are found in Hebrew תּוֹר (tōr, “queue, line; turn; appointment; period”).^[3]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /taː.ra/

Noun

تَارَة • (tāra) f (plural تَارَات (tārāt))

(usually used adverbially) a time
Synonym: مَرَّة (marra)

Declension

Declension of noun **تَارَة** (tāra)
singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
singular	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	تَارَة tāra	التَّارَة at-tāra	تَارَة tārat
nominative	تَارَةٌ tāratun	التَّارَةُ at-tāratu	تَارَةُ tāratu
accusative	تَارَةً tāratan	التَّارَةَ at-tārata	تَارَةَ tārata
genitive	تَارَةٍ tāratin	التَّارَةِ at-tārati	تَارَةِ tārati
dual	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	تَارَتَيْن tāratayn	التَّارَتَيْن at-tāratayn	تَارَتَيْ tāratay
nominative	تَارَتَانِ tāratāni	التَّارَتَانِ at-tāratāni	تَارَتَا tāratā
accusative	تَارَتَيْنِ tāratayni	التَّارَتَيْنِ at-tāratayni	تَارَتَيْ tāratay
genitive	تَارَتَيْنِ tāratayni	التَّارَتَيْنِ at-tāratayni	تَارَتَيْ tāratay
plural	sound feminine plural
plural	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	تَارَات tārāt	التَّارَات at-tārāt	تَارَات tārāt
nominative	تَارَاتٌ tārātun	التَّارَاتُ at-tārātu	تَارَاتُ tārātu
accusative	تَارَاتٍ tārātin	التَّارَاتِ at-tārāti	تَارَاتِ tārāti
genitive	تَارَاتٍ tārātin	التَّارَاتِ at-tārāti	تَارَاتِ tārāti

References

“تارة” in Almaany
Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “تارة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 322b–c. where there are also suspicious vacillations about the original form of the word.

^ “tˀr²”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
^ Notwithstanding the difficulty of correspondence this is considered in Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 227
^ A comparison the 2017 Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou also makes, without any origin conclusion, equally comparing Hebrew טוּר (ṭūr, “line, row; series”) and Hebrew דוֹר (dōr, “circle of time, period, generation”).

Etymology 2

Adverbial accusative of تَارَة (tāra, “time”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /taː.ra.tan/

Adverb

تَارَةً • (tāratan)

sometimes, once, at times

[1] “tˀr²”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–

[2] Notwithstanding the difficulty of correspondence this is considered in Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 227

[3] A comparison the 2017 Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou also makes, without any origin conclusion, equally comparing Hebrew טוּר (ṭūr, “line, row; series”) and Hebrew דוֹר (dōr, “circle of time, period, generation”).

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