ء س ر

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Arabic

Etymology

Cognate to Hebrew א־ס־ר (ʾ-s-r).

Root

ء س ر • (ʔ-s-r)

related to binding, tying

Derived terms

Verbs

Form I: أَسَرَ (ʔasara, “to chain, to take as captive”)
- Verbal noun: أَسْر (ʔasr)
- Active participle: آسِر (ʔāsir)
- Passive participle: مَأْسُور (maʔsūr)
Form X: اِسْتَأْسَرَ (istaʔsara, “to let oneself be captured”)
- Verbal noun: اِسْتِئْسَار (istiʔsār)
- Active participle: مُسْتَأْسِر (mustaʔsir)
- Passive participle: مُسْتَأْسَر (mustaʔsar)

Nouns

إِسَار m (ʔisār, “strap”)
أَسِير m (ʔasīr, “prisoner”); pl. أَسْرَى (ʔasrā)
أُسْرَة f (ʔusra, “family, kin”); pl. أُسَر (ʔusar) and أُسْرَات (ʔusrāt) and أُسَرَات (ʔusarāt) and أُسُرَات (ʔusurāt)
مَاسُورَة f (māsūra, “pipe”); pl. مَوَاسِير (mawāsīr)

Adjectives

أُسْرِيّ (ʔusriyy, “familiary”)

See also

Arabic terms belonging to the root ء س ر (0 c, 4 e)

Further reading

Lane, Edward William (1863) “ء س ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 63
Wehr, Hans (1979) “ء س ر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

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