ء س ر

Cognate to Hebrew א־ס־ר‎ (ʾ-s-r).

ء س ر • (ʔ-s-r)

1. related to binding, tying

Verbs

• Form I: أَسَرَ‎ (ʔasara, “to chain, to take as captive”)
  • Verbal noun: أَسْر‎ (ʔasr)
  • Active participle: آسِر‎ (ʔāsir)
  • Passive participle: مَأْسُور‎ (maʔsūr)
• Form X: اِسْتَأْسَرَ‎ (istaʔsara, “to let oneself be captured”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِئْسَار‎ (istiʔsār)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَأْسِر‎ (mustaʔsir)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَأْسَر‎ (mustaʔsar)

Nouns

• إِسَار‎ m (ʔisār, “strap”)
• أَسِير‎ m (ʔasīr, “prisoner”); pl. أَسْرَى‎ (ʔasrā)
• أُسْرَة‎ f (ʔusra, “family, kin”); pl. أُسَر‎ (ʔusar) and أُسْرَات‎ (ʔusrāt) and أُسَرَات‎ (ʔusarāt) and أُسُرَات‎ (ʔusurāt)
• مَاسُورَة‎ f (māsūra, “pipe”); pl. مَوَاسِير‎ (mawāsīr)

Adjectives

• أُسْرِيّ‎ (ʔusriyy, “familiary”)

• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ء س ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 63
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “ء س ر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN