أساس

See also: اساس

Arabic

Root
ء س س (ʔ-s-s)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔa.saːs/

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Noun

أَسَاس • (ʔasās) m (plural أُسُس (ʔusus)), non-standard plural أَسَاسَات (ʔasāsāt)

1. foundation, basis, base
   1. tenet
      • 2018 March 17, “الغارديان بعد مقتل منشق روسي جديد في لندن: "يجب أن ننظر جيدا ما خلف سحب أكاذيب بوتين"”, in BBC Arabic‎^[1]:

        ويقول فريدلاند إن "بوتين كحائز على الحزام الأسود في الألعاب القتالية لايرى في أساسات الديمقراطية مثل حرية التعبير وسيادة القانون إلا وسائد هوائية رخوة تصلح للتدرب عليها في تنفيذ الركلات".

        And Freedland says that “Putin, possessing a black-belt in fighting, doesn’t see in tenets of democracy like freedom of expression and rule of law anything but slack airbags fit for training to kick on them.”

        paraphrasing Jonathan Freedland on The Guardian: We have to see through Putin’s fog of lies, and take action now:

        He has shown us how he sees, for example, the basic tenets of democracy – whether that’s free speech or belief in the rule of law, evidence and due process. To us, those may look like the firm pillars that hold up a decent society. But to a black-belt such as Putin they are rotten timbers, ripe for a good kicking and liable to bring down the whole edifice.

Declension

Declension of noun أَسَاس (ʔasās)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	أَسَاس ʔasās	الْأَسَاس al-ʔasās	أَسَاس ʔasās
Nominative	أَسَاسٌ ʔasāsun	الْأَسَاسُ al-ʔasāsu	أَسَاسُ ʔasāsu
Accusative	أَسَاسًا ʔasāsan	الْأَسَاسَ al-ʔasāsa	أَسَاسَ ʔasāsa
Genitive	أَسَاسٍ ʔasāsin	الْأَسَاسِ al-ʔasāsi	أَسَاسِ ʔasāsi
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	أَسَاسَيْن ʔasāsayn	الْأَسَاسَيْن al-ʔasāsayn	أَسَاسَيْ ʔasāsay
Nominative	أَسَاسَانِ ʔasāsāni	الْأَسَاسَانِ al-ʔasāsāni	أَسَاسَا ʔasāsā
Accusative	أَسَاسَيْنِ ʔasāsayni	الْأَسَاسَيْنِ al-ʔasāsayni	أَسَاسَيْ ʔasāsay
Genitive	أَسَاسَيْنِ ʔasāsayni	الْأَسَاسَيْنِ al-ʔasāsayni	أَسَاسَيْ ʔasāsay
Plural	basic broken plural triptote‎; sound feminine plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	أُسُس‎; أَسَاسَات ʔusus‎; ʔasāsāt	الْأُسُس‎; الْأَسَاسَات al-ʔusus‎; al-ʔasāsāt	أُسُس‎; أَسَاسَات ʔusus‎; ʔasāsāt
Nominative	أُسُسٌ‎; أَسَاسَاتٌ ʔususun‎; ʔasāsātun	الْأُسُسُ‎; الْأَسَاسَاتُ al-ʔususu‎; al-ʔasāsātu	أُسُسُ‎; أَسَاسَاتُ ʔususu‎; ʔasāsātu
Accusative	أُسُسًا‎; أَسَاسَاتٍ ʔususan‎; ʔasāsātin	الْأُسُسَ‎; الْأَسَاسَاتِ al-ʔususa‎; al-ʔasāsāti	أُسُسَ‎; أَسَاسَاتِ ʔususa‎; ʔasāsāti
Genitive	أُسُسٍ‎; أَسَاسَاتٍ ʔususin‎; ʔasāsātin	الْأُسُسِ‎; الْأَسَاسَاتِ al-ʔususi‎; al-ʔasāsāti	أُسُسِ‎; أَسَاسَاتِ ʔususi‎; ʔasāsāti

Derived terms

• أَسَاسِيّ (ʔasāsiyy, “fundamental”)

Descendants

• Maltese: sies
• → Armenian: ասաս (asas)
• → Azerbaijani: əsas
• → Chagatai: اساس
  • Uyghur: ئاساس (asas)
  • Uzbek: asos
• → Malay: asas
  • Indonesian: asas
• → Ottoman Turkish: اساس
  • Turkish: esas
  • Crimean Tatar: esas
• → Persian: اساس (asâs)
  • → Urdu: اساس (asās)
• → Portuguese: alicerce
• → Turkmen: esas

References

• Freytag, Georg (1830) “أساس”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 33
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “أساس”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 56
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “أساس”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[4], London: W.H. Allen, page 33
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “أساس”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 22

South Levantine Arabic

Root
ا س س
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic أَسَاس (ʔasās).

Noun

أساس • (ʔasās) f (plural أسس (ʔusos))

1. basis, foundation (literal and figurative)

   على أساس إنّ ― ʔala ʔasās inn ― on the basis that..., on the condition that...