ء س ر

Arabic

Etymology

Cognate to Hebrew א־ס־ר (ʾ-s-r).

Root

ء س ر • (ʔ-s-r)

1. related to binding, tying

Derived terms

Verbs

• Form I: أَسَرَ (ʔasara, “to chain, to take as captive”)
  • Verbal noun: أَسْر (ʔasr)
  • Active participle: آسِر (ʔāsir)
  • Passive participle: مَأْسُور (maʔsūr)
• 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

Arabic terms belonging to the root ء س ر (0 c, 4 e)

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