ج س س

ج س س • (j-s-s)

1. related to palpation

• Form I: جَسَّ‎ (jassa, “to palpate”)
  • Verbal noun: جَسّ‎ (jass), مَجَسَّة‎ (majassa)
  • Active participle: جَاسّ‎ (jāss)
  • Passive participle: مَجْسُوس‎ (majsūs)
• Form V: تَجَسَّسَ‎ (tajassasa, “to scrutinize”)
  • Verbal noun: تَجَسُّس‎ (tajassus)
  • Active participle: مُتَجَسِّس‎ (mutajassis)
  • Passive participle: مُتَجَسَّس‎ (mutajassas)
• Form VIII: اِجْتَسَّ‎ (ijtassa, “to palpate”)
  • Verbal noun: اِجْتِسَاس‎ (ijtisās)
  • Active participle: مُجْتَسّ‎ (mujtass)
  • Passive participle: مُجْتَسّ‎ (mujtass)

• مَجَسّ‎ (majass, “place of touching”)
• مَجَسَّة‎ (majassa, “place of touching”)
• مِجَسّ‎ (mijass, “sensor, probe”)
• مِجَسَّة‎ (mijassa, “tactile organ”)

• جَاسُوس‎ (jāsūs, “spy”); pl. جَوَاسِيس‎ (jawāsīs)
• جَاسَ‎ (jāsa), اِجْتَاسَّ‎ (ijtāssa, “to explore, to look through, to seek for what is in”)
• جَوَّاس‎ (jawwās, “one who treads upon everything”)

• Eilers, Wilhelm (1962), “Iranisches Lehngut im arabischen Lexikon”, in Indo-Iranian Journal (in German), volume 5, issue 3, pages 210–211
• Freytag, Georg (1830), “ج س س”, 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 277
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ج س س”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 422–423