ناسك

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Arabic

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Etymology

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Likely borrowed from a base stem active participle of the matching Aramaic root meaning in the widespread base stem “to pour out”, “to cast” – of which sense in the passive participle form نَسِيك (nasīk, ingot of gold or silver) derives as a separate borrowing from Aramaic – and in a technical cultic sense “to libate”, a root related to the Arabic ن ز ع (n-z-ʕ); considering also that the other terms within the root formula نَسَكَ (nasaka, to lead a devout or virtuous or ascetic life), تَنَسَّكَ (tanassaka, to be devout or virtuous or ascetic), نَُِسك (nask, nusk, nisk, devotion to a god), مَنْسَِك (mansak, mansik, place of ritual, stead frequented for ceremony) have most probably been contrived on the model of the present term.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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نَاسِك (nāsikm (plural نُسَّاك (nussāk))

  1. ascetic

Declension

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References

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  • nsk2”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 152
  • Baalbaki, Rohi (1995) “ناسك”, in Al-Mawrid: A Modern Arabic-English Dictionary, 7th edition, Beirut: Dar El-Ilm Lilmalayin, →ISBN
  • Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “ناسك”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1260, imagining it instead cognate
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “ناسك”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 275
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ناسك”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1251
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “ناسك”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[3], London: Williams & Norgate
  • Wehr, Hans (1960) “ناسك”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “ناسك”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1129