عصبي

Relative adjective (nisba) composed of عَصَب (ʕaṣab, “nerve”) +‎ ـِيّ (-iyy) and in the later sense from tribal bonds and connections; compare عَصَبِيَّة (ʕaṣabiyya).

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.sˤa.bijj/

عَصَبِيّ • (ʕaṣabiyy) (feminine عَصَبِيَّة (ʕaṣabiyya), masculine plural عَصَبِيُّونَ (ʕaṣabiyyūna), feminine plural عَصَبِيَّات (ʕaṣabiyyāt))

1. (anatomy) neural, nervous (concerning the nerves)
2. nervous (anxious)
3. sinewy; muscular
4. short-tempered, quick-tempered, hotheaded (easily angered)
5. (Modern Standard Arabic) violent, aggressive
6. (relational) related to tribal bonds

• → Azerbaijani: əsəbi
• → Persian: عصبی
• → Ottoman Turkish: عصبی (asabi)
  • → Turkish: asabi
• → Uzbek: asabiy

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

From Arabic عَصَبِيّ (ʕaṣabiyy).

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.sˤa.bi/,

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عصبي • (ʕaṣabi) (feminine عصبيّة (ʕaṣabiyye), common plural عصبيّين (ʕaṣabiyyīn))

1. nervy, oversensitive, touchy, irritable
2. neuro-, neural