عصا

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Etymology 1

From Proto-Semitic *ʕiṣ́-. Cognate with Hebrew עֵץ (ʿēṣ).

Pronunciation

Noun

عَصًا (ʕaṣanf (construct state عَصَا (ʕaṣā), dual عَصَوَانِ (ʕaṣawāni), plural عُصِيّ (ʕuṣiyy) or عِصِيّ (ʕiṣiyy) or أَعْصٍ (ʔaʕṣin) or أَعْصَاء (ʔaʕṣāʔ))

  1. staff, stick
  2. walking cane
  3. punishment, chastisement
  4. wooden handle
  5. scepter
  6. crosier
  7. dominion
  8. penis
  9. lingual bone, tongue
  10. Muslim fraternity or a community in general
Declension
Descendants
  • Maltese: għasa
  • Moroccan Arabic: عصا (ʕṣā)
  • Gulf Arabic: عصاية (ʕaṣāya)
  • Hijazi Arabic: عصاية (ʕaṣāya)
  • Armenian: ասա (asa)

Etymology 2

Root
ع ص و (ʕ ṣ w)
1 term

Pronunciation

Verb

عَصَا (ʕaṣā) I (non-past يَعْصُو (yaʕṣū), verbal noun عَصْو (ʕaṣw))

  1. to beat or strike with a stick, sword, or staff; to use, handle, wield, equip any of the above.
  2. to dress wound, to use a splint on a wound
  3. to unite people for a purpose, to shepherd people together
Conjugation

References

Kohistani Shina

Noun

عصا (esā)

  1. cane

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَصًا (ʕaṣan, staff, stick), itself from Proto-Semitic *ʕiṣ́-.

Noun

عصا (ʼasa)

  1. stick, wand, cane, staff, an elongated piece of wood, typically put to some use
    Synonyms: آغاج (ağac), دكنك (değenek)
  2. sceptre, an ornamental staff held by a ruling monarch as a symbol of power

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَصًا (ʕaṣan, stick)

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? asā
Dari reading? asā
Iranian reading? asâ
Tajik reading? aso
Dari عصا
Iranian Persian
Tajik ъасо

Noun

عصا ('asâ) (plural عصا‌ها ('asâ-hâ))

  1. stick, rod, staff
  2. scepter
    1. (by extension) guide
      • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume I, verse 3920:
        تو عصا کش هر که را که زندگی است
        بی‌‌عصا و بی‌‌عصا کش کور چیست
        tū 'asā kaš har ki rā ki zandigī-st
        bē-'asa u bē-'asa kaš kūr čīst
        Thou art the Guide of every one that hath life:
        what is the blind man without staff and guide?

References

  • Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “عصا”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim