أصر

أَصَرَّ • (ʔaṣarra) IV (non-past يُصِرُّ (yuṣirru), verbal noun إِصْرَار (ʔiṣrār))

1. to persist
2. to insist

   لقد كان لديه حقيبة جميلة وأصَرّ أنْ يُقدِّمَهُ لي كَهدية.

   He had a beautiful bag and insisted on giving it to me as a gift.

   ويُصِرُّ العَالِم أيضًا أن الإسلام يدعو المؤمنين إلى الرحمة بالآخرين.

   The scholar also insists that Islam calls on believers to be merciful to others.

3. to resolve

أصر (form I)

1. أَصِرْ (ʔaṣir) /ʔa.sˤir/: first-person singular non-past active jussive of صَارَ (ṣāra)
2. أَصُرْ (ʔaṣur) /ʔa.sˤur/: first-person singular non-past active jussive of صَارَ (ṣāra)
3. أُصَرْ (ʔuṣar) /ʔu.sˤar/: first-person singular non-past passive jussive of صَارَ (ṣāra)

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أصر • (ʾaṣarr) (verb form iv, imperfect يصرّ, yiṣirr)

1. (intransitive) to insist, to persist

• Hinds, Martin, Badawi, El-Said (1986) “ص ر ر”, in A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic‎, Beirut: Librairie du Liban, page 501

Learned borrowing from Arabic أَصَرَّ (ʔaṣarra).

• IPA^(key): /ʔa.sˤarr/,

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أصرّ • (ʔaṣarr) IV (present بصرّ (biṣirr))

1. to insist

   Synonyms: لحّ (laḥḥ), نقّ (naʔʔ)