العشق

Root entry · 13 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns intense love, often to an obsessive degree. It can describe the lover's admiration, excessive affection, or even a blindness to the beloved's faults. The concept can manifest in both chaste and unchaste contexts, and is sometimes described as a self-induced mental illness.

Derived headwords

العشقnoun

1.
intense loveboth
The admiration of a lover for their beloved, or an excess of love.
2.
blindness to faultsboth
A lack of perception of the beloved's flaws, often due to infatuation.
3.
obsessive fixationclassical
A mental illness brought on by dwelling on the perceived perfections of certain images or forms.

المعشقnoun

1.
place of loveclassical
A place where love is experienced or expressed.

عشقهverb

1.
to love intenselyboth
To be deeply infatuated with someone or something.

عشقاnoun

1.
intense love (masdar)both
The state or act of loving intensely.

عاشقadjective

1.
loverboth
One who loves intensely.

عاشقةadjective

1.
female loverboth
A woman who loves intensely.

تعشقهverb

1.
to feign loveclassical
To pretend to love or be infatuated.

كسكيتadjective

1.
excessive (love)classical
Describing an extreme or excessive amount of love.

عشق بهverb

1.
to cling toclassical
To adhere closely to, to be attached to.

العشقةnoun

1.
a type of plantclassical
A plant that initially turns green, then dries up and turns yellow.

عشقnoun

1.
plural of العشقةclassical
The plural form of the plant name.

المعشوقnoun

1.
a palaceclassical
A palace in Samarra, named Al-Ma'shuq.

العشقnoun

1.
garden improversclassical
Those who cultivate and level gardens, especially of fragrant plants.

Parallel reading

العشق والمعشق، كمقعد: عجب المحب بمحبوبه، أو إفراط الحب

Al-'ishq and al-ma'shaq, like maq'ad: the admiration of the lover for their beloved, or an excess of love.

ويكون في عفاف وفي دعارة

And it can be in chastity or in promiscuity.

أو عمى الحس عن إدراك عيوبه

Or a blindness of the senses to the perception of his faults.

أو مرض وسواسي يجلبه إلى نفسه بتسليط فكره على استحسان بعض الصور

Or an obsessive illness that one brings upon oneself by directing one's thoughts towards the approval of certain images.

عشقه، كعلمه، عشقا، بالكسر وبالتحريك، فهو عاشق، وهي عاشق وعاشقة.

He loved intensely, like 'alima, 'ishqan, with a kasra and with a haraka; so he is a lover ('ashiq), and she is a lover ('ashiqa) and a female lover ('ashiqah).

وتعشقه: تكلفه

And ta'ashshuqahu: to feign it (love).

وكسكيت: كثيره

And kaskit: its excess.

وعشق به، كفرح: لصق

And 'ashiqa bihi, like fariha: to cling to.

والعشقة، محركة: شجرة تخضر ثم تدق وتصفر، ج: عشق

And al-'ishqah, muharrakah: a plant that turns green then dries up and turns yellow, pl: 'ishq.

والمعشوق: قصر بسر من رأى

And al-Ma'shuq: a palace in Samarra.

وع بمقياس مصر

And 'amm bi-miqyas Misr (a measure in Egypt).

والعشق، بضمتين: المصلحون غروس الرياحين ومسووها

And al-'ushq, with two dammahs: the improvers of fragrant plant seedlings and those who level them.