ء س ر
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Arabic
Etymology
Cognate to Hebrew א־ס־ר (ʾ-s-r).
Root
ء س ر • (ʔ-s-r)
Derived terms
- Verbs
- Form I: أَسَرَ (ʔasara, “to chain, to take as captive”)
- Form X: اِسْتَأْسَرَ (istaʔsara, “to let oneself be captured”)
- Verbal noun: اِسْتِئْسَار (istiʔsār)
- Active participle: مُسْتَأْسِر (mustaʔsir)
- Passive participle: مُسْتَأْسَر (mustaʔsar)
- Nouns
- إِسَار m (ʔisār, “strap”)
- أَسِير m (ʔasīr, “prisoner”); pl. أَسْرَى (ʔasrā)
- أُسْرَة f (ʔusra, “family, kin”); pl. أُسَر (ʔusar) and أُسْرَات (ʔusrāt) and أُسَرَات (ʔusarāt) and أُسُرَات (ʔusurāt)
- مَاسُورَة f (māsūra, “pipe”); pl. مَوَاسِير (mawāsīr)
- Adjectives
- أُسْرِيّ (ʔusriyy, “familiary”)
See also
Further reading
- Lane, Edward William (1863) “ء س ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[1], London: Williams & Norgate, page 63
- Wehr, Hans (1979) “ء س ر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN