واسط

Arabic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /waː.sitˤ/

Adjective

وَاسِط (wāsiṭ) (feminine وَاسِطَة (wāsiṭa), masculine plural وَاسِطُونَ (wāsiṭūna), feminine plural وَاسِطَات (wāsiṭāt))

  1. active participle of وَسَطَ (wasaṭa)

Declension

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: vasit
  • Ottoman Turkish: واسط (vasıt)
  • Persian: واسط (vâset)
  • Urdu: واسط (vāsit)

Proper noun

وَاسِط (wāsiṭ) f

  1. Wasit (a city in Iraq)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: Vasit
  • Chagatai: واسط
    • Uyghur: ۋاسىت (wasit)
    • Uzbek: Vosit
  • Ottoman Turkish: واسط (vasıt)
    • Turkish: Vasıt
  • Persian: واسط (vâset)
  • Urdu: واسط (vāsit)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَاسِط (wāsiṭ).

Adjective

واسط (vasıt)

  1. middle; central; intermediary

Proper noun

واسط (vasıt)

  1. Wasit (a city in Iraq)
  • واسطی (vasıtî)

Descendants

  • Turkish: Vasıt

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَاسِط (wāsiṭ).

Pronunciation

  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /vɔsit/

Noun

Dari واسط
Iranian Persian
Tajik восит (vosit)

واسط (vâset)

  1. the middle
  2. a mediator
  3. a brideman, marriage-broker, match-maker
  4. the fore-part of a camel's saddle

Proper noun

Dari واسط
Iranian Persian
Tajik Восит (Vosit)

واسط (vâset)

  1. Wasit (a city in Iraq)
  • واسطی (vâseti)

Further reading

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَاسِط (wāsiṭ).

Pronunciation

Noun

واسِط (vāsit̤) m (Hindi spelling वासित)

  1. the middle
  2. a mediator
  3. a go-between; middle-man; match-maker

Proper noun

واسِط (vāsit̤) m (Hindi spelling वासित)

  1. Wasit (a city in Iraq)
  • واسطی (vāsitī)

Further reading

  • واسط”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884), واسط”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • واسط”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
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