لص

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek λῃστής (lēistḗs).

Noun

لِصّ (liṣṣ) m (plural لُصُوص (luṣūṣ) or أَلْصَاص (ʾalṣāṣ), feminine لِصَّة (liṣṣa))

  1. thief, robber
    مَكَانَكَ أَيُّهَا اللِّصُّ!
    makānaka ʾayyuhā l-liṣṣu!
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Declension

Synonyms

Hyponyms

Noun

لُصّ (luṣṣ) m (plural لُصُوص (luṣūṣ) or أَلْصَاص (ʾalṣāṣ), feminine لُصَّة (luṣṣa))

  1. (obsolete) thief

Verb

لَصَّ (laṣṣa) I, non-past يَلُصُّ or يَلِصُّ‎ (yaluṣṣu or yaliṣṣu)

  1. (obsolete) to steal

Conjugation

Verb

لَصَّ (laṣṣa) I, non-past يَلُصُّ‎ (yaluṣṣu)

  1. (obsolete) to do secretly

Conjugation

Verb

لَصَّ (laṣṣa) I, non-past يَلَصُّ‎ (yalaṣṣu)

  1. (obsolete) to close (the door)

Conjugation

Synonyms

  • أَغْلَقَ (ʾaḡlaqa)
  • أَطْبَقَ (ʾaṭbaqa)
  • رَصَّ (raṣṣa)

Verb

لَصَّ (laṣṣa) I, non-past يَلَصُّ‎ (yalaṣṣu)

  1. (obsolete) to have teeth close together

Conjugation

Noun

لَصّ (laṣṣ) m

  1. (obsolete) verbal noun of لَصَّ (laṣṣa, to steal, to do secretly, to close (the door)) (form I)

Declension

References

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 284
  • Freytag, Georg (1837), لص”, 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 104
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), لص”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2659–2660
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), لص”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 917
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), لص”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1153
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