ن ش و

Arabic

Etymology

Slangy alteration of ن ش ء (n-š-ʔ) related to “raising”—evidently in ancient Arabic understanding one could “get high” also from wine, and it was understood as something smelling sweetly.

Noun

ن ش و • (n-š-w)

1. related to intoxication, inebriation

Derived terms

• Form I: نَشَا (našā, “to apprehend by the nose, to inhale”)
  • Verbal noun: نَشْوَة (našwa), نِشْوَة (nišwa), نُشْوَة (nušwa)
  • Active participle: نَاشٍ (nāšin)
  • Passive participle: مَنْشُوّ (manšuww)
• Form I: نَشِيَ (našiya, “to be inebriated”)
  • Verbal noun: نَشْوَة (našwa), نِشْوَة (nišwa), نُشْوَة (nušwa), نَشْو (našw)
  • Active participle: ?
• Form IV: أَنْشَى (ʔanšā, “to assess the odour of”)
  • Verbal noun: إِنْشَاء (ʔinšāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُنْشٍ (munšin)
  • Passive participle: مُنْشًى (munšan)
• Form V: تَنَشَّى (tanaššā, “to perceive the fine odour of; to be inebriated”)
  • Verbal noun: تَنَشٍّ (tanaššin)
  • Active participle: مُتَنَشٍّ (mutanaššin)
  • Passive participle: مُتَنَشًّى (mutanaššan)
• Form VIII: اِنْتَشَى (intašā, “to assess the odour of; to be inebriated”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْتِشَاء (intišāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُنْتَشٍ (muntašin)
  • Passive participle: مُنْتَشًى (muntašan)
• Form X: اِسْتَنْشَى (istanšā, “to perceive the fine odour of, to sniff; to be inebriated”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِنْشَاء (istinšāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَنْشٍ (mustanšin)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَنْشًى (mustanšan)

• نَشًا (našan, “good perception of odours; trees exhaling a good odour”)
• نَشْوَة (našwa, “apprehended odour; ebriety”)
• نَشْوَان (našwān, “boozy”)

References

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1264
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ن ش و”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 284
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ن ش 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^[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1266b–1267a
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ن ش و”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1135