ع ب س

Arabic

Root

ع ب س • (ʕ-b-s)

1. related to distress

Derived terms

• Form I: عَبَسَ (ʕabasa, “to show a crabbed face”)
  • Verbal noun: عَبْس (ʕabs), عُبُوس (ʕubūs)
  • Active participle: عَابِس (ʕābis)
  • Passive participle: مَعْبُوس (maʕbūs)
• Form I: عَبِسَ (ʕabisa, “to get muck or urine dried upon oneself”)
  • Verbal noun: عَبَس (ʕabas)
  • Active participle: ?
  • Passive participle: مَعْبُوس (maʕbūs)
• Form II: عَبَّسَ (ʕabbasa, “to get a stern face”)
  • Verbal noun: تَعْبِيس (taʕbīs)
  • Active participle: مُعَبِّس (muʕabbis)
  • Passive participle: مُعَبَّس (muʕabbas)
• Form IV: أَعْبَسَ (ʔaʕbasa, “to get muck or urine dried upon oneself”)
  • Verbal noun: إِعْبَاس (ʔiʕbās)
  • Active participle: مُعْبِس (muʕbis)
• Form V: تَعَبَّسَ (taʕabbasa, “to show a stern demeanour”)
  • Verbal noun: تَعَبُّس (taʕabbus)
  • Active participle: مُتَعَبِّس (mutaʕabbis)

• عَبَس (ʕabas, “dried urine or dung upon the tail, muck, soil”)
• عَبُوس (ʕabūs, “stern; distressful”)
• عَبَّاس (ʕabbās, “always stern-faced”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1835) “ع ب س”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 99
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ع ب س”, 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^[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages s155–156
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ع ب س”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1930