# مطر
## Arabic
### Etymology 1.1
#### Verb

مَطَرَ • (maṭara) I (non-past يَمْطُرُ (yamṭuru), verbal noun مَطْر (maṭr) or مَطَر (maṭar))
* to rain (“to have rain fall from the sky”)
    السَّمَاءُ مَطَرَتْ بِغِزَارَةِ الْيَوْمِ.as-samāʔu maṭarat bi-ḡizārati l-yawmi.The sky rained heavily today.
* to rain, to shower with rain
* to pour out, to shower, to douse
* to render, to do (e.g., a favor)
* to run swiftly (of a horse), to speed away

##### Conjugation
#### Noun

مَطْر • (maṭr) m
* verbal noun of مَطَرَ (maṭara) (form I)

##### Declension
### Etymology 1.2

Cognate with Biblical Hebrew מָטָר (māṭā́r, “rain”), Classical Syriac ܡܛܪܐ (maṭar, “rain”) and Ugaritic 𐎎𐎉𐎗 (mṭr). Compare also Akkadian 𒈪𒋫𒅈𒌑 (miṭarū, “fields irrigated by rainwater”) attested only in Ras Shamra, most likely borrowed from West Semitic.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ma.tˤar/

#### Noun

مَطَر • (maṭar) m (plural أَمْطَار (ʔamṭār))
* verbal noun of مَطَرَ (maṭara) (form I)
* rain

##### Declension
### Etymology 1.3
#### Adjective

مَطِر • (maṭir) (feminine مَطِرَة (maṭira))
* rainy

##### Declension
### Etymology 2
#### Noun

مَطَر • (maṭar) m (plural أَمْطَار (ʔamṭār))
* Alternative form of مَطَرَة (maṭara, “waterskin”)

##### Declension
### References

* Brown, John Pairman (2000) Israel and Hellas (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; 276), volume II, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, page 71
* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “مطر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 599–600
* Freytag, Georg (1837) “مطر”, 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 189
* Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “مطر”, 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 1122
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “مطر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 1018
* Wehr, Hans (1979) “مطر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1072

## Gulf Arabic
### Etymology

From Classical Arabic مَطَر (maṭar).

### Pronunciation

* (Kuwait) (noun): IPA: /ˈmʊ.tˤər/
* (Kuwait) (verb): IPA: /mə.ˈtˤːər/

### Noun

مُطَر • (muṭar) m (plural اَمْطار (amṭār))
* rain

### Proper noun

مُطَر • (muṭar)
* A Kuwaiti family name; Mutar; Matar

### Verb

مَطَّر • (maṭṭar)
* to rain

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَطَر (maṭar, “rain”).

### Noun

مطر • (matar) (plural امطار (amtar))
* rain, condensed water falling from a cloud
    Synonyms: باران (baran), یاغمور (yağmur)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: matar

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “matar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3078
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “matar”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 699
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مطر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1184
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pluvia”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1310
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مطر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4727
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مطر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1889