أسوة

Arabic

Root
ء س و (ʔ-s-w)

Alternative forms

• إِسْوَة (ʔiswa)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔus.wa/

Noun

أُسْوَة • (ʔuswa) f (plural أُسًى (ʔusan))

1. (archaic) remedy, relief; consolation
2. (archaic) complement
3. a single action of imitation
4. simile, model, exemplar, what serves comparison

Declension

Declension of noun أُسْوَة (ʔuswa)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	أُسْوَة ʔuswa	الْأُسْوَة al-ʔuswa	أُسْوَة ʔuswat
Nominative	أُسْوَةٌ ʔuswatun	الْأُسْوَةُ al-ʔuswatu	أُسْوَةُ ʔuswatu
Accusative	أُسْوَةً ʔuswatan	الْأُسْوَةَ al-ʔuswata	أُسْوَةَ ʔuswata
Genitive	أُسْوَةٍ ʔuswatin	الْأُسْوَةِ al-ʔuswati	أُسْوَةِ ʔuswati
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	أُسْوَتَيْن ʔuswatayn	الْأُسْوَتَيْن al-ʔuswatayn	أُسْوَتَيْ ʔuswatay
Nominative	أُسْوَتَانِ ʔuswatāni	الْأُسْوَتَانِ al-ʔuswatāni	أُسْوَتَا ʔuswatā
Accusative	أُسْوَتَيْنِ ʔuswatayni	الْأُسْوَتَيْنِ al-ʔuswatayni	أُسْوَتَيْ ʔuswatay
Genitive	أُسْوَتَيْنِ ʔuswatayni	الْأُسْوَتَيْنِ al-ʔuswatayni	أُسْوَتَيْ ʔuswatay
Plural	broken plural in ـًى (-an)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	أُسَى ʔusā	الْأُسَى al-ʔusā	أُسَى ʔusā
Nominative	أُسًى ʔusan	الْأُسَى al-ʔusā	أُسَى ʔusā
Accusative	أُسًى ʔusan	الْأُسَى al-ʔusā	أُسَى ʔusā
Genitive	أُسًى ʔusan	الْأُسَى al-ʔusā	أُسَى ʔusā

Descendants

• Persian: اسوه (osve)
• Malay: uswah

References

• Freytag, Georg (1830) “أسوة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 37
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “أسوة”, 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 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 34