ء س و

Arabic

Root

ء س و • (ʔ-s-w)

1. related to grief
2. related to consolation
3. related to medical treatment

Derived terms

Verbs

• Form I: أَسَا (ʔasā, “to treat, to pacify”)
  • Verbal noun: أَسْو (ʔasw), أَسًى (ʔasan)
  • Active participle: آسٍ (ʔāsin, “healer”)
  • Passive participle: مَأْسُوّ (maʔsuww)
• Form I: أَسِيَ (ʔasiya, “to be grieved”)
  • Verbal noun: أَسًى (ʔasan)
  • Active participle: ?
• Form II: أَسَّى (ʔassā, “to consolate”)
  • Verbal noun: تَأْسِيَة (taʔsiya)
  • Active participle: مُؤَسٍّ (muʔassin)
  • Passive participle: مُؤَسًّى (muʔassan)
• Form III: آسَى (ʔāsā, “to be beneficial to someone, to express condolence to someone; to treat”)
  • Verbal noun: مُؤَاسَاة (muʔāsāh)
  • Active participle: مُؤَاسٍ (muʔāsin)
  • Passive participle: مُؤَاسًى (muʔāsan)
• Form V: تَأَسَّى (taʔassā, “to constrain oneself to be patient, to be consolated; to take as a model”)
  • Verbal noun: تَأَسٍّ (taʔassin)
  • Active participle: مُتَأَسٍّ (mutaʔassin)
  • Passive participle: مُتَأَسًّى (mutaʔassan)
• Form VI: تَآسَى (taʔāsā, “to consolate each other”)
  • Verbal noun: تَآسٍ (taʔāsin)
  • Active participle: مُتَآسٍ (mutaʔāsin)
  • Passive participle: مُتَآسًى (mutaʔāsan)
• Form VIII: اِئْتَسَى (iʔtasā, “to imitate”)
  • Verbal noun: اِئْتِسَاء (iʔtisāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُؤْتَسٍ (muʔtasin)
  • Passive participle: مُؤْتَسًى (muʔtasan)
• Form X: اِسْتَأْسَى (istaʔsā, “to beseech for consolation”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِئْسَاء (istiʔsāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَأْسٍ (mustaʔsin)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَأْسًى (mustaʔsan)

Nouns

• أُسْوَة f (ʔuswa, “remedy; exemplar”); pl. أُسًى (ʔusan)
• إِسْوَة f (ʔiswa, “remedy; exemplar”); pl. إِسًى (ʔisan)
• إِسَاء f (ʔisāʔ, “remedy, medicine”); pl. آسِيَة (ʔāsiya) and إِسَاءَات (ʔisāʔāt)
• مَأْسَاة m (maʔsāh, “tragedy”); pl. مَآسٍ (maʔāsin)
• أَسُوّ m (ʔasuww, “medicament”); pl. آسِيَة (ʔāsiya)
• أُسَاوَة f (ʔusāwa, “medical treatment”)
• أُسًى (ʔusan, “patience”)

Adjectives

• أَسْوَان (ʔaswān, “grieving, mourning”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ء س و”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 24
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ء س و”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 36–37
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ء س و”, 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^[3] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 34
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ء س و”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 60–61
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ء س و”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 21
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ء س و”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 26