أصاب

Compare صَابَ (ṣāba, “to hit the target”).

أَصَابَ • (ʔaṣāba) IV (non-past يُصِيبُ (yuṣību), verbal noun إِصَابَة (ʔiṣāba) or صَوَاب (ṣawāb) or مُصَاب (muṣāb))

1. to hit the mark, hit on the right thing
2. to speak or act to the point
3. to wish to do so, wish, intend
4. to find, obtain
5. to destroy, afflict
6. to let down from above
7. to befall

   أُصِيبَ بِزُكَامٍ حَادٍّ. ― ʔuṣība bizukāmin ḥāddin. ― He contracted a severe case of common cold.

8. to be right(?)

   «البقباق» هو كثير الكلام، سواء أخطأ أو أصاب، والبقبقة صوت في الماء.

   "Al-Baqbaq" is someone who talks a lot, whether he is right or wrong, while Baqbaq is a sound in the water.

• أَخْطَأَ (ʔaḵṭaʔa)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “أصاب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

Learned borrowing from Arabic أَصَابَ (ʔaṣāba).

• IPA^(key): /ʔa.sˤaːb/,

• Audio (al-Lidd):

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أصاب • (ʔaṣāb) IV (present بصيب (biṣīb))

1. to injure, to afflict

   Synonym: جرح (jaraḥ)