أسرع

Compare سَرِيع (sarīʕ, “fast”).

أَسْرَعَ • (ʔasraʕa) IV (non-past يُسْرِعُ (yusriʕu), verbal noun إِسْرَاع (ʔisrāʕ))

1. to be fast
2. (intransitive) to hurry, to rush
3. (transitive) to quicken (the pace), to speed up, to accelerate (an action)

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

Elative of سَرِيع (sarīʕ, “fast”).

أَسْرَع • (ʔasraʕ) (feminine سُرْعَى (surʕā), masculine plural أَسَارِع (ʔasāriʕ))

1. elative degree of سَرِيع (sarīʕ):
   1. faster; fastest

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “أسرع”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate

أسرع (form I)

1. أَسْرُعُ (ʔasruʕu) /ʔas.ru.ʕu/: first-person singular non-past active indicative of سَرُعَ (saruʕa)
2. أَسْرُعَ (ʔasruʕa) /ʔas.ru.ʕa/: first-person singular non-past active subjunctive of سَرُعَ (saruʕa)
3. أَسْرُعْ (ʔasruʕ) /ʔas.ruʕ/: first-person singular non-past active jussive of سَرُعَ (saruʕa)

أسرع (form II)

1. أُسَرِّعُ (ʔusarriʕu) /ʔu.sar.ri.ʕu/: first-person singular non-past active indicative of سَرَّعَ (sarraʕa)
2. أُسَرَّعُ (ʔusarraʕu) /ʔu.sar.ra.ʕu/: first-person singular non-past passive indicative of سَرَّعَ (sarraʕa)
3. أُسَرِّعَ (ʔusarriʕa) /ʔu.sar.ri.ʕa/: first-person singular non-past active subjunctive of سَرَّعَ (sarraʕa)
4. أُسَرَّعَ (ʔusarraʕa) /ʔu.sar.ra.ʕa/: first-person singular non-past passive subjunctive of سَرَّعَ (sarraʕa)
5. أُسَرِّعْ (ʔusarriʕ) /ʔu.sar.riʕ/: first-person singular non-past active jussive of سَرَّعَ (sarraʕa)
6. أُسَرَّعْ (ʔusarraʕ) /ʔu.sar.raʕ/: first-person singular non-past passive jussive of سَرَّعَ (sarraʕa)

Learned borrowing from Arabic أَسْرَعَ (ʔasraʕa).

• IPA^(key): /ʔas.raʕ/,

• Audio (al-Lidd):

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أسرع • (ʔasraʕ) IV (present بسرع (bisreʕ))

1. to be fast
2. (by extension) to speed (in a vehicle)