# عمر
## Arabic
### Verb

عَمَرَ • (ʕamara) I (non-past يَعْمُرُ (yaʕmuru) or يَعْمِرُ (yaʕmiru), verbal noun عَمْر (ʕamr) or عُمَر (ʕumar))
* to live long, to be long-lived

#### Conjugation
### Verb

عَمَرَ • (ʕamara) I (non-past يَعْمُرُ (yaʕmuru) or يَعْمِرُ (yaʕmiru), verbal noun عَمَارَة (ʕamāra))
عَمُرَ • (ʕamura) I (non-past يَعْمُرُ (yaʕmuru), verbal noun عَمَارَة (ʕamāra))
* to thrive, to prosper, to flourish, to flower, to bloom
* to be inhabited, to be peopled, to be populated
* to be civilized, to be cultivated
* to be full, to be filled

#### Conjugation
### Verb

عَمَرَ • (ʕamara) I (non-past يَعْمُرُ (yaʕmuru), verbal noun عِمَارَة (ʕimāra) or عُمُور (ʕumūr) or عُمْرَان (ʕumrān))
* to fill with life, to cause to thrive, to make prosperous
* to inhabit, to live, to dwell
* to fill, to pervade
* to reign
* to build, to erect, to construct
* to rebuild, to restore, to reconstruct

#### Conjugation
### Verb

عَمَّرَ • (ʕammara) II (non-past يُعَمِّرُ (yuʕammiru), verbal noun تَعْمِير (taʕmīr))
* to prolong life, to grant long life
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:96:يَوَدُّ أَحَدُهُمْ لَوْ يُعَمَّرُ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍyawaddu ʔaḥaduhum law yuʕammaru ʔalfa sanatin(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* to populate, to people
* to build, to erect, to construct
* to rebuild, to reconstruct
* to repair, to restore, to overhaul, to refurbish, to recondition

#### Conjugation
### Noun

عُمُر or عُمْر • (ʕumur or ʕumr) m (plural أَعْمَار (ʔaʕmār))
* life as a period of time, length of life, lifespan, lifetime
    كَمْ تَبْلُغُ مِنَ الْعُمْر؟ ― kam tabluḡu mina l-ʕumr? ― How old are you?
* age
    Synonym: سِنّ (sinn)

#### Descendants

* Maltese: għomor
* → Azerbaijani: ömür (“lifetime”)
* → Bashkir: ғүмер (ğümer, “lifetime”)
* → Classical Persian: عُمْر (umr)
** Tajik: умр (umr)
** → Bengali: ওমর (ōmor, “age”)
** → Chagatai:
*** Uzbek: umr
** → Hindustani:
    Hindi: उमर (umar)
    Urdu: عمر (umar)
** → Kazakh: ғұмыр (ğūmyr), өмір (ömır)
* → Koyra Chiini: alomour (“long and prosper life”, in Timbuktu songhaï/songhay language), alomur
* → Kumzari: اُمر (umr)
* → Malay: umur (“age”)
* → Ottoman Turkish: عمر (ʼümr, ʼömür)
** Turkish: ömür
** → Albanian: ymër
** → Armenian: էօմիւր (ēōmiwr), էօմր (ēōmr), ումբր (umbr)
* → Swahili: umri
* → Tatar: гомер (ğomer, “lifetime”)

#### See also

* حَياة (ḥayāh, “life in general, the state of being alive”)
* مَعِيشَة (maʕīša, “life as a way of living, conditions of life”)

### Noun

عَمْر • (ʕamr) m
* verbal noun of عَمَرَ (ʕamara) (form I), "living long"/"long living" (in the gerundal sense)

#### Declension
### Noun

عُمَر • (ʕumar) m
* verbal noun of عَمَرَ (ʕamara) (form I), "living long"/"long living" (in the gerundal sense)

#### Declension
### Proper noun

عُمَر • (ʕumar) m
* a male given name, Umar or Omar
* (Islam) ʿUmar ibn al-Ḵaṭṭāb, recognized as the Islamic prophet's second rightly-guided successor in Sunni Islam

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: Ömər
* → Bashkir: Ғүмәр (Ğümər)
* → Chinese: 奧馬爾 / 奥马尔 (Àomǎ'ěr), 吾買爾 / 吾买尔 (Wúmǎi'ěr)
* → Classical Persian: عُمَر (umar)
** Dari: عُمَر (umar)
** Iranian Persian: عُمَر (omar)
** Tajik: Умар (Umar)
** → Bengali: ওমর (ōmor)
** → Chagatai:
*** Uyghur: ئۆمەر (ömer)
*** Uzbek: Umar
** → Kazakh: Омар (Omar)
** → Kyrgyz: Омор (Omor)
* → English: Omar, Umar
* → Hausa: Umaru
* → Ottoman Turkish: عمر (Ömer)
** Turkish: Ömer
* → Spanish: Omar

#### See also

* أَبُو بَكْر (ʔabū bakr)
* رَافِضِيّ (rāfiḍiyy)
* عَلِيّ (ʕaliyy)
* عَمْرو (ʕamr)
* عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān)

### References

* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “عمر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 170–171
* Freytag, Georg (1835) “عمر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 220–221
* Wehr, Hans (1979) “عمر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 753
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “عمر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2153–55

## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Arabic عَمَّرَ (ʕammara).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʕam.mar/

#### Verb

عمر • (ʕammar) II (non-past يعمر (yʕammar))
* to fill (a container, etc.)

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

From Arabic عُمْر (ʕumr).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʕmur/, /ʕmar/

#### Noun

عمُر or عمَر • (ʕmur or ʕmar) m (plural أعمار (ʔaʕmār))
* age

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic عُمْر (ʕumr).

#### Noun

عمر • (ʼümr, ʼömür)
* life, existence
    Synonyms: حیات (hayat), یاشام (yaşam)
* lifespan (of humans)
* happy life

##### Usage notes

* Sense 3 was only pronounced as ömür.

##### Descendants

* Turkish: ömür
* → Albanian: ymër
* → Armenian: էօմիւր (ēōmiwr), էօմր (ēōmr), ումբր (umbr)

#### References

* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “عمر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 859b
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عمر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1320f.

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic عُمَر (ʕumar).

#### Proper noun

عمر • (ʼümer, ʼömer)
* (Islam) Umar, the second caliph recognised in Sunni Islam
* a male given name, equivalent to English Omar

##### Descendants

* Turkish: Ömer

#### References

* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “عمر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 859b
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عمر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1321a

## Pashto
### Noun

عمر • (transliteration needed) ?
* age

## Persian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic عُمْر (ʕumr).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʔumɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔʊmɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔʊmɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔʊmɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔumɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʔomɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʔumɾ]

#### Noun

عمر • (omr)
* lifetime, lifespan, life
    تمام عمر ― tamâm-e omr ― all his life
    عمر طولانی ― omr-e tulâni ― long life
* (uncommon, obsolete) the beloved
** c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 269:با فقیران عمر من این بیوفایی تا بکی دل خود از عشق تو خون شد دلربایی تا بکیbā faqīrān umr-i man īn bēwafāyī tā ba-kay dil-i xwad az išq-i tō xūn šud dilrubāyī tā ba-kayMy love, until when will you be unfaithful to the indigent? My heart is bloodied by love for you. Until when will you snatch my heart away?(Classical Persian transliteration)

##### Derived terms

* عمر کردن (omr kardan, “to live; to pass one's life”)
* خدا عمرت بده (xodâ omr-et bedeh, “God bless you”, literally “God give you life”)
* عمرش وفا نکرد (omr-eš vafâ na-kard, “he passed away”, literally “his lifespan was disloyal”)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic عُمَر (ʕumar).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʔu.ˈmaɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔʊ.mǽɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔʊ.mǽɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔʊ.mǽɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔu.mǽɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʔo.mǽɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʔu.mǽɾ]

#### Proper noun

عمر • (omar)
* (Islam) Omar bin al-Khattab, second Sunni Islamic caliph and a companion of Muhammad
* a male given name

##### Derived terms

* عمری (omari, “Sunni”)

#### See also

* ابوبکر (abu-bakr)
* عثمان (osmân)
* علی (ali)

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Arabic عَمْر (ʕamr).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʔamɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔämɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔämɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔämɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔämɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʔæmɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʔämɾ]

#### Proper noun

عمر • (amr)
* (Islamic law) Richard Roe; a conventional placeholder name in Islamic law, used for the second party along with زید (zeyd, first party) and بکر (bakr, optional third party).

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Arabic عَمَّرَ (ʕammara).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʕam.mar/, [ˈʕam.mar]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

#### Verb

عمّر • (ʕammar) II (present بعمّر (biʕammer))
* to build, to rebuild

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

From Arabic عُمْر (ʕumr).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʕumr/, [ˈʕʊ.m(ʊ)r]
* Audio (Jerusalem):(file)

#### Noun

عمر • (ʕumr) m (plural أعمار (ʔaʕmār))
* age
    قديش عمرك؟ ― ʔaddēš ʕumrak? ― How old are you? (literally, “How much is your age?”)
    Audio (Ramallah):(file)
    عمري تلاتين (سنة).ʕumri talātīn (sane).I'm thirty years old.(literally, “My age is thirty (years).”)
    الناس اللي أعمارهم بالستّين لازم يروحو عند الدكتور أكتر من مرّة بالسنة.in-nās illi ʔaʕmārha bis-sittīn lāzem yrūḥu ʕind id-doktōr ʔaktar min marra bis-sane.People in their sixties should go to the doctor more than once a year.(literally, “People that their ages are in the sixties should go to the doctor more than once a year.”)
* lifetime, life span
* (by extension, with enclitic determiner) ever, never
    عمرك رحت ع فلسطين؟ ― ʕomrak ruḥt ʕ falasṭīn ― Have you ever gone to Palestine?

##### See also

* حياة (ḥayā, “life, lifetime”)

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian عمر ('umr), taken from Arabic عُمْر (ʕumr).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ʊm.ɾᵊ/, /ʊ.məɾ/
* Rhymes: -ʊmɾᵊ, -əɾ

### Noun

عُمْر • (’umr) f (Hindi spelling उम्र)
* age (number of years one has lived)
* life; lifetime

#### Declension
### Proper noun

عُمَر • (’umar) m (Hindi spelling उमर)
* a male given name, Umar or Omar
* (Islam) ʿUmar ibn al-Ḵaṭṭāb, recognized as the Islamic prophet's second rightly-guided successor in Sunni Islam

### References

* “عمر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “عمر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.

## Ushojo
### Etymology

From Urdu عمر (’umar).

### Noun

عمر (’umar)
* life span, age