جقر

Originally زَقَر (zaʔar), and borrowed in that form from Aramaic סקר (săqar, “to stare, to stare with envy, malice”), which has seen variants with initial ז (z).^[1] However, knowledge of the Aramaic verb's initial radical is not required in order to assert that جقر (jaʔar, jaqar) is a development of زَقَر (zaʔar, zaqar) and not the other way around, as Arabic historically forbade the radicals ج (j < *g) and ق (q) from co-occurring in a root. This constraint was presumably productive until after ج (*g) had begun to palatalize in Arabic, so only recently could a term like جقر (jaʔar, jaqar) have been incorporated into an Arabic variety's vocabulary.

The proposed shift of زقر (zaʔar, zaqar) to جقر (jaʔar, jaqar) is unusual because none of ق (q)'s features would seem to condition a shift ز (z) > ج (j) and because the former is a fricative while the latter was historically affricate, but the shift is nonetheless possibly corroborated by عجق (ʕajaʔ, “to clutter, overwhelm”) and باجوق (bājūʔ, “mouth, loud mouth, loud noise”).

• IPA^(key): /ʒa.ʔar/
• (Druze, coastal Syria) IPA^(key): /ʒa.qar/

جقر • (jaʔar) I (non-past يجقر (yijʔur))

1. to glower at, to stare down

• زَقَر (zaʔar)

• انجقر (njaʔar, “to be dissuaded”)

Likely derived from the above.

• IPA^(key): /ʒi.ʔir/
• (Druze, coastal Syria) IPA^(key): /ʒi.qir/

جقر • (jiʔir) (feminine جقرة (jiʔra, jiʔre), common plural جقرين (jiʔrīn))

1. abrasive, annoying, aggressive (of a human)

   Synonyms: جِفِص (jifiṣ), سئيل (saʔīl)