بيسوس

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Arabic

Etymology

From Persian پیه سوز (pîh sôz), پی سوز (pi sôz, a kind of lamp, literally fat burner).

Pronunciation

Noun

بَيْسُوس (baysūsm (plural بَيَاسِيس (bayāsīs))

  1. (obsolete) a kind of lamp
    Hypernym: مَنَارَة (manāra)
    • 1355, اِبْن بَطُّوطَة [ibn baṭṭūṭa, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa], edited by Charles Defrémery & Beniamino Sanguinetti, تُحْفَةُ ٱلنُّظَّارِ فِي غَرَائِبِ ٱلْأَمْصَارِ وَعَجَائِبِ ٱلْأَسْفَارِ [tuḥfatu n-nuẓẓāri fī ḡarāʔibi l-ʔamṣāri waʕajāʔibi l-ʔasfāri]‎, volume II, Paris: L'imprimerie impériale/nationale, published 1854, page 263, line 3 a fine:
    • 1355, اِبْن بَطُّوطَة [ibn baṭṭūṭa, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa], edited by Charles Defrémery & Beniamino Sanguinetti, تُحْفَةُ ٱلنُّظَّارِ فِي غَرَائِبِ ٱلْأَمْصَارِ وَعَجَائِبِ ٱلْأَسْفَارِ [tuḥfatu n-nuẓẓāri fī ḡarāʔibi l-ʔamṣāri waʕajāʔibi l-ʔasfāri]‎, volume II, Paris: L'imprimerie impériale/nationale, published 1854, page 294, line 4:

Declension

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “بيسوس”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 133b
  • Eilers, Wilhelm (1962) “Iranisches Lehngut im arabischen Lexikon”, in Indo-Iranian Journal (in German), volume 5, number 3, page 208 footnote 10
  • Frank, Carl (1921) “Noch ein paar persische Fremdwörter im Arabischen”, in Orientalistische Literaturzeitung (in German), volume 24, number 12, columns 289–290