عويص

From the root ع وص‎ (ʕ-w-ṣ).

عَوِيص • (ʕawīṣ)

1. Difficult (as a substantive: a difficult thing, difficulty, distress)
   1. Of language: hard to understand, obscure
   2. Of earth: hard
   3. Of sand: hard to traverse
   4. Of land: rugged

• Lane, Edward William (1863), “عويص”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate

From Arabic عَوِيص‎ (ʕawīṣ).

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.wiːsˤ/, [ʕaˈwiːsˤ]

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عويص • (ʕawīṣ) (feminine عويصة‎ (ʕawīṣe))

1. complex, complicated, obscure

   Synonym: معقد‎ (mʕaʔʔad)

   Antonym: بسيط‎ (basīṭ)

• صعب‎ (ṣaʕb, “hard, difficult”)