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Arabic
Root
و ش ي • (w-š-y)
- related to variegation
Derived terms
- Form I: وَشَى (wašā, “to variegate, to embroider, to embellish with striped colours, to tinsel; to refine with fabrications, to add sham to”)
- Verbal noun: وَشْي (wašy)
- Active participle: وَاشٍ (wāšin)
- Passive participle: مَوْشِيّ (mawšiyy)
- Form I: وَشَى (wašā, “to denounce, to rat on, to finger, to snitch on”)
- Form II: وَشَّى (waššā, “to embellish, to ornament”)
- Form IV: أَوْشَى (ʔawšā, “to spur on to test the running power of; to bring out, to pull out; to abundate”)
- Verbal noun: إِيشَاء (ʔīšāʔ)
- Active participle: مُوشٍ (mūšin)
- Passive participle: مُوشًى (mūšan)
- Form V: تَوَشَّى (tawaššā, “to be embroidered, to be variegated”)
- Form X: اِسْتَوْشَى (istawšā, “to spur on to test the running power of”)
References
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “و ش ي”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 809
- Freytag, Georg (1837) “و ش ي”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 471
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “و ش ي”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 1545–1546
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “و ش ي”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 1215
- Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “و ش ي”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1403