عاصی

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic عَاصٍ (ʕāṣin).

Adjective

عاصی (asi)

  1. rebellious

Noun

عاصی (asi) (plural عاصیلر)

  1. rebel

Descendants

  • Turkish: asi

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic عَاصِي (ʕāṣī, sinner; Asi/Orontes river).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? āsī
Dari reading? āsī
Iranian reading? âsi
Tajik reading? osi

Adjective

عاصی ('âsi)

  1. sinful

Descendants

Noun

عاصی ('âsi) (plural عاصی‌ها ('âsi-hâ) or عاصیان ('âsiân))

  1. sinner

Proper noun

عاصی ('âsi)

  1. Asi, Orontes (river in Syria)
    • 1045-1052, Nasir Khusraw, Safarnama
      و از آنجا به شهر حمات شدیم، شهری خوشی و آبادان بر لب آب عاصی و این آب را از آن سبب عاصی گویند که به جانب روم می‌رود، یعنی، چون از بلاد اسلام به بلاد کفر می‌رود، عاصی است و بر آب دولاب های بسیار ساخته اند.
      wa az ānjā ba šahr-i hamāt šudēm, šahrē xwaš u ābādān bar lab-i āb-i āsī. wa īn āb rā az ān sabab "āsī" gōyand ki ba jānib-i rōm mē-rawad; ya'nī, čūn az bilād-i Islām ba bilād-i kufr mē-rawad, āsī ast, wa bar āb dolāb-hāyi basyār sāxta-and.
      and from there we went to city of Hama, a pleasant and inhabited place near the Asi River. And this river is called "sinful" because it is flowing toward Rome , that is to say, since it is going from the lands of Islam to the lands of kufr, it is "sinful", and over river they have built many Persian wheels.

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian عاصی ('āsī), from Arabic عَاصٍ (ʕāṣin).

Pronunciation

Adjective

عاصی (āsī) (Hindi spelling आसी)

  1. rebellious[1]

Noun

عاصی (āsīm or f (Hindi spelling आसी)

  1. sinner[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Platts, John T. (1884) “عاصی”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.