أسوة

Arabic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the root ء س و (ʾ-s-w).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔus.wa/

Noun

أُسْوَة (ʾuswa) f (plural أُسًى (ʾusan))

  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)

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1830), أسوة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (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 (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 34
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