متوسط

Derived from the active participle of the verb تَوَسَّطَ (tawassaṭa, “to be in the middle”), constructed from the root و س ط (w-s-ṭ) of وَسْط (wasṭ, “middle”).

• IPA^(key): /mu.ta.was.sitˤ/

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مُتَوَسِّط • (mutawassiṭ) (feminine مُتَوَسِّطَة (mutawassiṭa), masculine plural مُتَوَسِّطُونَ (mutawassiṭūna), feminine plural مُتَوَسِّطَات (mutawassiṭāt))

1. being in the middle, mediating
2. middle, central
3. medium

   بَيْتُهُمْ مُتَوَسِّطُ الْحَجْمِ ― baytuhum mutawassiṭu l-ḥajmi ― their house is middle-sized

4. average, middling, indifferent

• → Azerbaijani: mütəvəssit
• → Ottoman Turkish: متوسط (mutavassıt)
  • → Turkish: mutavassıt
• → Persian: متوسط
  • → Hindi: मुतवस्सित (mutvassit)
  • → Urdu: مُتَوَسِّط (mutavassit)

مُتَوَسِّط • (mutawassiṭ) m

1. (statistics) mean, average

• → Azerbaijani: mütəvəssit
• → Ottoman Turkish: متوسط (mutavassıt)
  • → Turkish: mutavassıt
• → Persian: متوسط

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “متوسط”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “وسط”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Borrowed from Arabic مُتَوَسِّط (mutawassiṭ).

مُتَوَسِّط • (motavasset)

1. medium, middle

   طبقه متوسط ― tabaqe-ye motavasset ― middle class

   قدرت متوسط ― qodrat-e motavasset ― middle power

2. average

   اندازه متوسط ― andâze-ye motavasset ― average size

   به طور متوسط ― be towr-e motavasset ― on average

مُتَوَسِّط • (motavasset)

1. (statistics) average, mean