بصير

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Arabic

Root
ب ص ر (b ṣ r)
12 terms

Pronunciation

Adjective

بَصِير (baṣīr) (masculine plural بُصَرَاء (buṣarāʔ) or بَصِيرُونَ (baṣīrūna), feminine plural بَصِيرَات (baṣīrāt) or بَصَائِر (baṣāʔir) or بِصَار (biṣār), elative أَبْصَر (ʔabṣar))

  1. well-seeing; having eyesight, seeing, sighted
    Antonym: أَعْمَى (ʔaʕmā)
  2. (figuratively)
    1. clairvoyant, observant, perspicacious
    2. well-versed, conversant, informed
  3. (antiphrastically, rare) blind

Declension

References

  • Fischer, August (1907) “Arab. baṣīr „scharfsichtig“ per antiphrasin = „blind“”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, volume 61, pages 425–434
  • Fischer, August (1907) “Kleine Mitteilungen: Baṣīr „blind””, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, volume 61, pages 751–753