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فسر

Root entry · 7 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the act of explaining, clarifying, and interpreting something. It extends to seeking clarification and, in a specialized sense, to a physician's examination of urine.

Derived headwords

الفِسْرnoun
  1. 1.
    the explanationboth

    the explanation

فَسَرَverb
  1. 1.
    to explainboth

    To clarify, elucidate, or interpret something.

أَفْسِرُverb
  1. 1.
    to explainboth

    The first-person singular present tense of the verb 'to explain'.

فَسْرًاnoun
  1. 1.
    Explanationboth

    The masdar (verbal noun) of the verb 'فسر', denoting the act of explaining.

التَّفْسِيرnoun
  1. 1.
    the same (as al-fasr)both

    the same (as al-fasr)

اسْتَفْسَرَverb
  1. 1.
    to ask for explanationboth

    To request that someone explain something to you.

التَّفْسِرَةnoun
  1. 1.
    Urine examinationclassical

    A physician's examination or observation of urine, considered a neologism by the author.

Parallel reading

الفسر: البيان
Al-fusr: the explanation.
وقد فسرت الشئ أفسره بالكسر فسرا
And I have explained a thing, I explain it (with kasra), an explanation.
والتفسير مثله
And al-tafsir is similar to it.
واستفسرته كذا
And I asked him to explain such-and-such.
أي سألته أن يفسره لي
Meaning, I asked him to explain it to me.
والفسر: نظر الطبيب إلى الماء
And al-fusr: the physician's looking at the urine.
وكذلك التفسرة
And likewise al-tafsirah.
وأظنه مولدا
And I think it is a neologism.