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Arabic
Pronunciation
Noun
عِصْمَة • (ʕiṣma) f
- defense; protection
- chastity, purity, modesty, virtuousness
- (religion) infallibility; the inability to issue a wrong teaching (as e.g. of the Shiite imams or Catholic popes)
- (Islam) 'ismah
Declension
Declension of noun عِصْمَة (ʕiṣma)
Singular
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singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
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Indefinite
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Definite
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Construct
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Informal
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عِصْمَة ʕiṣma
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الْعِصْمَة al-ʕiṣma
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عِصْمَة ʕiṣmat
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Nominative
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عِصْمَةٌ ʕiṣmatun
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الْعِصْمَةُ al-ʕiṣmatu
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عِصْمَةُ ʕiṣmatu
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Accusative
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عِصْمَةً ʕiṣmatan
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الْعِصْمَةَ al-ʕiṣmata
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عِصْمَةَ ʕiṣmata
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Genitive
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عِصْمَةٍ ʕiṣmatin
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الْعِصْمَةِ al-ʕiṣmati
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عِصْمَةِ ʕiṣmati
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Derived terms
Descendants
- Persian: عصمت ('esmat)
- → Ottoman Turkish: عصمت (İsmet)
References
- Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “عصمة”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
- Lane, Edward William (1863) “عصمة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
- Wehr, Hans (1960) “عصمة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz