أسوة

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Arabic

Root
ء س و (ʔ s w)
5 terms

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

أُسْوَة (ʔuswaf (plural أُسًى (ʔusan))

  1. (archaic) remedy, relief; consolation
  2. (archaic) complement
  3. a single action of imitation
  4. simile, model, exemplar, what serves comparison

Declension

Descendants

  • Persian: اسوه (osve)
  • Malay: uswah

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “أسوة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 37
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “أسوة”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 34