أسوة

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Arabic

Root
ء س و (ʔ s w)
5 terms

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

أُسْوَة (ʔuswaf (plural أُسًى (ʔusan))

  1. (archaic) remedy, relief; consolation
  2. (archaic) complement
  3. a single action of imitation
  4. simile, model, exemplar, what serves comparison

Declension

Descendants

  • Persian: اسوه (osve)
  • Malay: uswah

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “أسوة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 37
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “أسوة”, 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[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 34