أقصى

Elative adjective from قَصِيّ (qaṣiyy, “distant”).

أَقْصَى • (ʔaqṣā) (feminine قُصْوَى (quṣwā), masculine plural أَقْصَوْنَ (ʔaqṣawna) or أَقَاصٍ (ʔaqāṣin), feminine plural قُصْوَيَات (quṣwayāt))

1. further, more distant; furthest, most distant

   Antonym: أَدْنَى (ʔadnā)

   الشَّرْق الْأَقْصَى ― aš-šarq al-ʔaqṣā ― the Far East, as opposed to الشَّرْق الْأَدْنَى (aš-šarq al-ʔadnā)

2. last
3. extreme

• الْمَسْجِد الْأَقْصَى (al-masjid al-ʔaqṣā, “Al-Aqsa Mosque”)

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

أَقْصَى • (ʔaqṣā) m (plural أَقَاصٍ (ʔaqāṣin))

1. farthest part
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 28:20:

     وَجَاءَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَقْصَى ٱلْمَدِينَةِ يَسْعَى قَالَ يَا مُوسَى إِنَّ ٱلْمَلَأَ يَأْتَمِرُونَ بِكَ لِيَقْتُلُوكَ فَٱخْرُجْ إِنِّي لَكَ مِنَ ٱلنَّاصِحِينَ

     wajāʔa rajulun min ʔaqṣā l-madīnati yasʕā qāla yā mūsā ʔinna l-malaʔa yaʔtamirūna bika li-yaqtulūka fa-ḵruj ʔinnī laka mina n-nāṣiḥīna

     And there came a man, rushing from the farthest end of the city. He said, “O Moses! The chiefs are actually conspiring against you to put you to death, so leave ˹the city˺. I really advise you ˹to do so˺.”

     Translation by Mustafa Khattab

أَقْصَى • (ʔaqṣā) IV (non-past يُقْصِي (yuqṣī), verbal noun إِقْصَاء (ʔiqṣāʔ))

1. to remove, send or take far away, drag away, drive away, dismiss
2. to reach the utmost limit

Learned borrowing from Arabic أَقْصَى (ʔaqṣā).

• IPA^(key): /ʔaq.sˤa/,

• Audio (Ramallah):

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أقصى • (ʔaqṣa)

1. farther, farthest, most distant

   Antonym: أدنى (ʔadna)

2. maximal

   Synonym: أعلى (ʔaʕla)

   Antonym: أدنى (ʔadna)

   الحدّ الأقصى ― il-ḥadd il-ʔaqṣa ― the maximum

• المسجد الأقصى (il-masjed il-ʔaqṣa, “Al-Aqsa mosque”)