ه ر س

See also: ه ر ش

Arabic

Etymology

Cognate to Hebrew ה־ר־ס (h-r-s).

Root

ه ر س • (h-r-s)

1. related to squashing, pounding

Derived terms

• Form I: هَرَسَ (harasa, “to crush, to pound, to grind, to squash”)
  • Verbal noun: هَرْس (hars)
  • Active participle: هَارِس (hāris)
  • Passive participle: مَهْرُوس (mahrūs)
• Form II: هَرَّسَ (harrasa, “to crush, to pound, to grind, to squash”)
  • Verbal noun: تَهْرِيس (tahrīs)
  • Active participle: مُهَرِّس (muharris)
  • Passive participle: مُهَرَّس (muharras)
• Form V: تَهَرَّسَ (taharrasa, “to be crushed, to be pounded, to be ground, to be squashed”)
  • Verbal noun: تَهَرُّس (taharrus)
  • Active participle: مُتَهَرِّس (mutaharris)
• Form VII: اِنْهَرَسَ (inharasa, “to be crushed, to be pounded, to be ground, to be squashed”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْهِرَاس (inhirās)
  • Active participle: مُنْهَرِس (munharis)

• مِهْرَاس (mihrās, “mortar”)
• هَرِيس (harīs, “mush, mash, kasha, puree, jumble, ground foodstuff”)
• هَرِيسَة (harīsa, “mush, mash, kasha, puree, jumble, ground foodstuff”)
• هَرَّاس (harrās, “steamroller, drumroller”)
• هَرَّاسَة (harrāsa, “steamroller, drumroller; masher, crusher, device to squash”)
• هَرَاس (harās) and هَرَاسَة (harāsa, “Sclerocephalus arabicus”)
• هَرَّاس (harrās, “vendor of ground foodstuff”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ه ر س”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 754
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ه ر س”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 384
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ه ر س”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1412
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ه ر س”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2891
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ه ر س”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1202
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ه ر س”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1347