نعش

Arabic

Etymology 1

Seemingly a Middle Iranian borrowing equivalent to Persian لاش (lâš). Prefixation to ع ي ش (ʕ-y-š) as in نَوْرَج (nawraj) is also considered. The verbs in the root ن ع ش (n-ʕ-š) are denominal in any case.

Alternative forms

  • نَعَش (naʕaš), نَعَاش (naʕāš) al-Andalus, proscribed, plurals there also أَنْعَاش (ʔanʕāš) and أَنْعِشَة (ʔanʕiša)

Noun

نَعْش (naʕš) m (plural نُعُوش (nuʕūš))

  1. corpse (human)
  2. bier, stretcher
    • 577 AH / 1181–82 CE, ابن هشام اللخمي [Ibn Hišām al-Laḵmiyy], José Pérez Lázaro, editor, الْمَدْخَلُ إِلَى تَقْوِيمِ اللِسَانِ وَتَعْلِيمِ الْبَيَانِ (al-madḵalu ʔilā taqwīmi l-lisāni wataʕlīmi l-bayāni) [Introducción a la corrección del lenguaje y la enseñanza de la elocuencia] (Fuentes Arábico-Hispanas; 6), volume II, Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, published 1990, →ISBN, page 290 Nr. 309:
      ويقولون للّذي يُحْمَلُ عليه الميّت النَّعَاشُ. والصّواب النَّعْشُ. قال الشّاعر:
      أَمَحْمُولٌ عَلَى النَّعْشِ الهُمَامُ
      Them man say for that on which one is carried dead naʕāš. The right is naʕš. A poet (al-Nābiḡa aḏ-Ḏubyāni) said:
      I am carried high on the bier.
Declension
Descendants
  • Middle Armenian: նաշ (naš)
  • Persian: نعش (na'š)
  • Ottoman Turkish: نعش (naʼş)
    • Turkish: naş

Verb

نَعَشَ (naʕaša) I, non-past يَنْعَشُ‎ (yanʕašu)

  1. to lift up, to raise
  2. to animate, to revive, to restore in health or wealth
  3. to praise, to eulogize
Conjugation

Verb

نَعَّشَ (naʕʕaša) II, non-past يُنَعِّشُ‎ (yunaʕʕišu)

  1. to lift up, to raise
  2. to say to someone that he shall rise
Conjugation

Verb

نَعِشْ (naʕiš) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of عَاشَ (ʕāša)

Verb

نُعَشْ (nuʕaš) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past passive jussive of عَاشَ (ʕāša)

References

  • Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, page 1272–1273
  • Schiaparelli, Celestino (1871), نعش”, in Vocabulista in arabico. Pubblicato per la prima volta sopra un codice della Biblioteca Riccardiana di Firenze, Firenze: Tipografia dei successori Le Monnier, page 206a
  • Schiaparelli, Celestino (1871), نعش”, in Vocabulista in arabico. Pubblicato per la prima volta sopra un codice della Biblioteca Riccardiana di Firenze, Firenze: Tipografia dei successori Le Monnier, page 387
  • Shapira, Dan D. Y. (2009), “Irano-Arabica: contamination and popular etymology. Notes on the Persian and Arabic lexicons (with references to Aramaic, Hebrew and Turkic)”, in Христианский Восток – Новая Серия, volume 5 (XI), Moscow: Издательство Российской Академии Наук и Государственного Эрмитажа, page 177 fn. 86

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic نَعْش (naʕš). If that is of Iranian origin, doublet of لاش (lâš).

Noun

نعش (na'š)

  1. corpse (human)
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