ءسا

Root entry · 26 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns healing, treatment, and medicine, but also extends to concepts of sorrow, grief, and consolation. It also encompasses ideas of making amends, reconciliation, and setting an example or standard.

Derived headwords

الأَسَاnoun

1.
healing, treatmentboth
The act of healing or treating a wound or illness.
2.
sorrow, griefboth
Sadness or distress, particularly over a loss or misfortune.

أَسَاverb

1.
to heal, to treatboth
To apply medicine or treatment to a wound or illness.
2.
to reconcile, to make amendsclassical
To bring about reconciliation or agreement between parties.
3.
to grieve, to be sadboth
To feel sorrow or sadness.

وأسا الجرح أسوا وأسا: داواه — He healed the wound, healing and healing.

أسيت عليه أسى: حزنت — I grieved for him, grieving.

الأسْوnoun

1.
healing, treatmentboth
The act of healing or treating a wound.
2.
medicineboth
A substance used for healing.

الإِسَاءnoun

1.
medicineboth
A substance used for healing.
2.
healersclassical
Plural of 'aasi', meaning physicians or healers.

هم الآسون أم الرأس لما ... تواكلها الأطبة والإساء — They are the healers, or the head, when ... the physicians and the medicine abandoned it.

آسِيَةnoun

1.
healer, physicianboth
One who heals or treats wounds and illnesses.
2.
midwifeclassical
A woman who assists in childbirth, used metaphorically.
3.
pillar, columnclassical
A strong support, often used in architecture.
4.
firm foundationclassical
A well-established structure or basis.
5.
remnant, remainsclassical
The leftover parts of something, like a dwelling or possessions.

آسِيadjective

1.
healedboth
Describing a wound or person that has been treated and healed.

مَأْسُوّadjective

1.
healedboth
Describing a wound that has been healed.

أَسْوَنadjective

1.
sad, sorrowfulclassical
Feeling or showing grief or sadness.

ماذا هنالك من أسوان مكتئب، ... وساهف ثمل في صعدة حطم — What is there of a sorrowful, depressed person, ... and a wandering drunkard on a broken branch?

أَسْيَانadjective

1.
sad, sorrowfulclassical
Feeling or showing grief or sadness.

أَسْوَانadjective

1.
sad, sorrowfulclassical
Feeling or showing grief or sadness.

أسوان أنت لأن الحي موعدهم ... أسوان، كل عذاب دون عيذاب — Are you sorrowful because the tribe's appointment is with them ... sorrowful, every torment is less than 'Aythab.

أَسِيّverb

1.
to grieve, to be sadboth
To feel sorrow or sadness.

وأسي على مصيبته، بالكسر، يأسى أسى، مقصور، إذا حزن. — And he grieved over his misfortune, with a kasra, he grieves, grief, shortened, if he is sad.

يَأْسَىverb

1.
to grieve, to be sadboth
To feel sorrow or sadness.

أَسِيّadjective

1.
healedboth
Describing a wound that has been healed.

صب عليها الطيب حتى كأنها ... أسي على أم الدماغ حجيج — And she poured perfume on it until it was like ... a healed wound on the mother of the brain.

أَسَّىverb

1.
to console, to comfortboth
To provide solace or comfort to someone experiencing grief.
2.
to reconcile, to make peaceclassical
To bring about peace or reconciliation between people.

أسيته تأسية أي عزّيته — I consoled him, consoling, meaning I comforted him.

تَأَسَّىverb

1.
to be consoled, to take comfortboth
To find solace or comfort after experiencing grief.
2.
to follow an example, to emulateboth
To take someone as a model and follow their actions or principles.

تأسى به اتبع فعله واقتدى به — He emulated him, meaning he followed his action and took him as an example.

الأسْوَةnoun

1.
example, modelboth
A person or thing to be imitated or followed.
2.
consolationboth
Comfort or solace in a time of distress.

الإسْوَةnoun

1.
example, modelboth
A person or thing to be imitated or followed.
2.
consolationboth
Comfort or solace in a time of distress.

المُؤَاسَاةnoun

1.
consolationboth
The act of comforting someone in grief.
2.
sharing, participationboth
Sharing in livelihood, resources, or experiences.
3.
reconciliationclassical
The act of making peace or restoring friendly relations.

والمواساة: المشاركة والمساهمة في المعاش والرزق؛ وأصلها الهمزة فقلبت واوا تخفيفا. — And al-muwāsāh: participation and contribution in livelihood and sustenance; its origin is hamza, which was changed to waw for lightness.

آسَىverb

1.
to consoleboth
To comfort someone in their grief.
2.
to share withboth
To participate in or share something with another.
3.
to reconcileclassical
To make peace between parties.

آس بين الناس في وجهك ومجلسك وعدلك أي سو بينهم واجعل كل واحد منهم إسوة خصمه. — Be equitable among people in your face, your مجلس, and your justice, meaning be equal among them and make each one of them an example for his opponent.

تَآسَوْاverb

1.
they consoled each otherboth
A group of people comforting one another.
2.
they followed each other's exampleclassical
A group of people emulating one another.

وإن الألى بالطف من آل هاشم ... تآسوا، فسنوا للكرام التآسيا — And indeed, those in Karbala from the family of Hashim ... consoled each other, and thus set the precedent of consolation for the noble.

إسْوَةnoun

1.
example, modelboth
A person or thing to be imitated or followed.
2.
consolationboth
Comfort or solace in a time of distress.

أَسَاوِيnoun

1.
pillars, columnsclassical
Strong vertical supports, often in architecture.

أواسي ملك أثبتتها الأوائل — Pillars of a king established by the ancients.

آسِيَةnoun

1.
firm foundationclassical
A well-established structure or basis.
2.
remnant, remainsclassical
The leftover parts of something, like a dwelling or possessions.

آسِيnoun

1.
remnants, remainsclassical
The leftover parts of something, like a dwelling or possessions.

لم يبق من آسيها العامي غير رماد الدار والأثفي — Nothing of its common remnants remained except the ashes of the dwelling and the hearthstones.

آسِيَةname

1.
Asiyaboth
The name of Pharaoh's wife.

الآسِيnoun

1.
a specific water sourceclassical
A named body of water.

على الآسي، يحلقن القرونا؟ — At Al-Asi, shaving their generations?

Parallel reading

المداواة والعلاج، وهو الحزن أيضا.

Healing and treatment, and it is also sorrow.

وأسا الجرح أسوا وأسا: داواه.

And he healed the wound, healing and healing: he treated it.

والأسو والإساء، جميعا: الدواء، والجمع آسية؛

And al-asw and al-isā', both: medicine, and the plural is āsiya;

هم الآسون أم الرأس لما ... تواكلها الأطبة والإساء

They are the healers, or the head, when ... the physicians and the medicine abandoned it.

جاء فلان يلتمس لجراحه أسوا، يعني دواء يأسو به جرحه.

So-and-so came seeking medicine for his wounds, meaning a medicine with which he would heal his wound.

وقد أسوت الجرح آسوه أسوا أي داويته، فهو مأسو وأسي أيضا، على فعيل.

And you healed the wound, you heal it, healing, meaning you treated it, so it is māsū and asī also, on the pattern of 'afīl.

ويقال: هذا الأمر لا يؤسى كلمه.

And it is said: This matter cannot be healed of its wound.

وأهل البادية يسمون الخاتنة آسية كناية.

And the desert dwellers call the circumciser āsiya metaphorically.

استرجع وقال رب أسني لما أمضيت وأعني على ما أبقيت ؛ أسني، بضم الهمزة وسكون العين، أي عوضني.

He recited and said, 'O my Lord, compensate me for what I have completed and help me with what I have left'; asani, with a damma on the hamza and sukun on the 'ayn, means 'compensate me'.

عنده البر والتقى وأسا الشق ... وحمل لمضلع الأثقال

He has righteousness and piety and the healing of the split ... and carrying the burdens of the heavy.

والآسي: الطبيب، والجمع أساة وإساء.

And al-āsi: the physician, and the plural is asāh and isā'.

وأسوت الجرح فأنا آسوه أسوا إذا داويته وأصلحته.

And I healed the wound, and I am healing it, healing, if I treated it and repaired it.

وكان يقال له المؤسي لأنه كان يؤسي بين الناس أي يصلح بينهم ويعدل.

And he was called al-Mu'assi because he used to reconcile among people, meaning he would bring about reform and justice between them.

وأسي على مصيبته، بالكسر، يأسى أسى، مقصور، إذا حزن.

And he grieved over his misfortune, with a kasra, he grieves, grief, shortened, if he is sad.

ورجل آس وأسيان: حزين.

And a man is āsin and asyān: sad.

والله ما عليهم آسى ولكن آسى على من أضلوا ؛

By God, I do not grieve for them, but I grieve for those whom they have led astray;

والأسى، مفتوحا مقصورا: الحزن، وهو آس، وامرأة آسية وأسيا، والجمع أسيانون وأسيانات «1».

And al-asā, open and shortened: grief, and it is āsin, and a woman is āsiya and asyā, and the plural is asiyānūn and asiyānāt.

وسآني الشيء: حزنني؛

And something saddened me: it made me sad;

مر الحمول فما سأونك نقرة، ... ولقد أراك تساء بالأظعان

The camels passed, and you did not notice a single one, ... and indeed I see you saddened by the departing camels.

والأسوة والإسوة: القدوة.

And al-uswah and al-iswah: the example.

ويقال: ائتس به أي اقتد به وكن مثله.

And it is said: Take him as an example, meaning follow him and be like him.

فالنوم أسوة في هذا الأمر أي حالهم فيه واحدة.

And sleep is an example in this matter, meaning their condition in it is one.

والتأسية: التعزية.

And al-tasiyah: consolation.

أسيته تأسية أي عزّيته.

I consoled him, consoling, meaning I comforted him.

أساه فتأسى: عزاه فتعزى.

He consoled him, and he was consoled: he comforted him, and he was comforted.

وتأسى به أي تعزى به.

And he took comfort from him, meaning he was consoled by him.

أسوت فلانا بفلان إذا جعلته أسوته؛

You made someone an example of someone else if you made him his example;

آس بين الناس في وجهك ومجلسك وعدلك أي سو بينهم واجعل كل واحد منهم إسوة خصمه.

Be equitable among people in your face, your مجلس, and your justice, meaning be equal among them and make each one of them an example for his opponent.

تآسوا، فسنوا للكرام التآسيا

They consoled each other, and thus set the precedent of consolation for the noble.

تآسوا بمعنى تأسوا، وتأسوا بمعنى تعزوا.

They consoled each other meaning they emulated each other, and they emulated each other meaning they were consoled.

ولي في فلان أسوة وإسوة أي قدوة.

And I have in so-and-so an example and an example, meaning a model.

والمواساة: المشاركة والمساهمة في المعاش والرزق؛

And al-muwāsāh: participation and contribution in livelihood and sustenance;

ما أحد عندي أعظم يدا من أبي بكر آساني بنفسه وماله.

No one has a greater hand with me than Abu Bakr, who shared himself and his wealth with me.

آس بينهم في اللحظة والنظرة.

Be equitable among them in glance and look.

وآسيت فلانا بمصيبته إذا عزيته، وذلك إذا ضربت له الأسا، وهو أن تقول له ما لك تحزن.

And I consoled someone in his misfortune if I comforted him, and that is if you offered him consolation, which is to say to him, 'Why are you sad?'

وهو إسوتك أي أنت مثله وهو مثلك.

And he is your example, meaning you are like him and he is like you.

لا تأتس بمن ليس لك بأسوة.

Do not take as an example someone who is not an example for you.

وآساه بماله: أناله منه وجعله فيه أسوة، وقيل: لا يكون ذلك منه إلا من كفاف، فإن كان من فضلة فليس بمؤاساة.

And he shared his wealth with him: he gave him from it and made him an example in it, and it was said: this is only from sufficiency, and if it is from surplus, it is not muwāsāh.

ما يشارك فلان فلانا، والمؤاساة المشاركة؛

What one person shares with another, and al-muwāsāh is sharing;

فإن يك عبد الله آسى ابن أمه، ... وآب بأسلاب الكمي المغاور

If 'Abd Allah shared with his mother's son, ... and returned with the spoils of the armored warrior.

ما يؤاسيه ما يصيبه بخير من قول العرب آس فلانا بخير أي أصبه،

What he shares with him is what befalls him of good, from the saying of the Arabs: 'Ās fulānan bi-khayrin' meaning 'May good befall him'.

هو يؤاسي في ماله أي يساوي.

He is equal in his wealth, meaning he is equitable.

ورحم الله رجلا أعطى من فضل وآسى من كفاف، من هذا.

May God have mercy on a man who gave from his bounty and shared from his sufficiency, from this.

والأسوة والإسوة، بالضم والكسر: لغتان، وهو ما يأتسي به الحزين أي يتعزى به، وجمعها أسا وإسا؛

And al-uswah and al-iswah, with damma and kasra: two variants, and it is what the sad person takes as comfort, meaning he is consoled by it, and its plural is asā and isā;

ولولا الأسى [الإسى] ما عشت في الناس ساعة، ... ولكن إذا ما شئت جاوبني مثلي

And if not for the grief [grief], I would not have lived among people for an hour, ... but if you wish, my like will answer me.

والآسية: البناء المحكم.

And al-āsiyah: the firm structure.

والآسية: الدعامة والسارية، والجمع الأواسي؛

And al-āsiyah: the support and the pillar, and the plural is al-awāsi;

أواسي ملك أثبتتها الأوائل

Pillars of a king established by the ancients.

فشيد آسيا فيا حسن ما عمر

So he built a pillar, and how good is his construction.

يوشك أن ترمي الأرض بأفلاذ كبدها أمثال الأواسي ؛

It is almost time for the earth to cast forth the best of its produce, like pillars;

هي السواري والأساطين، وقيل: هي الأصل، واحدتها آسية لأنها تصلح السقف وتقيمه، من أسوت بين القوم إذا أصلحت.

They are the pillars and columns, and it is said: they are the foundation, the singular of which is āsiya because it supports and erects the roof, from 'asawtu bayna al-qawm' if you mean 'I reconciled'.

أنه أوثق نفسه إلى آسية من أواسي المسجد.

That he tied himself to a pillar from the pillars of the mosque.

وأسيت له من اللحم خاصة أسيا: أبقيت له.

And I set aside for him from the meat specifically, asyan: I kept it for him.

والآسية، بوزن فاعلة: ما أسس من بنيان فأحكم، أصله من سارية وغيرها.

And al-āsiyah, on the pattern of fā'ilah: what is founded of a building and made firm, its origin is from a pillar and others.

والآسية: بقية الدار وخرثي المتاع.

And al-āsiyah: the remainder of the house and the remnants of the possessions.

الآسي خرثي الدار وآثارها من نحو قطعة القصعة والرماد والبعر؛

Al-āsi: the remnants of the dwelling and its traces, such as a piece of pottery, ashes, and dung;

كلوا فلم نؤس لكم، مشدد، أي لم نتعمدكم بهذا الطعام.

Eat, and we did not intend for you, intensified, meaning we did not specifically offer you this food.

فلم يؤس أي لم تتعمدوا به.

And it was not intended, meaning you were not intended by it.

على الآسي، يحلقن القرونا؟

At Al-Asi, shaving their generations?