ن س ق

Arabic

Etymology

Denominal from نَسَق (nasaq), which originates as a borrowing from a Middle Iranian noun equal to Persian نسک (nask, “one of the books of the Avesta”).

Root

ن س ق • (n-s-q)

1. related to ordering

Derived terms

Verbs

• Form I: نَسَقَ (nasaqa)
  • Verbal noun: نَسْق (nasq)
  • Active participle: نَاسِق (nāsiq)
  • Passive participle: مَنْسُوق (mansūq)
• Form II: نَسَّقَ (nassaqa)
  • Verbal noun: تَنْسِيق (tansīq)
  • Active participle: مُنَسِّق (munassiq)
  • Passive participle: مُنَسَّق (munassaq)
• Form III: نَاسَقَ (nāsaqa)
  • Verbal noun: مُنَاسَقَة (munāsaqa), نِسَاق (nisāq)
  • Active participle: مُنَاسِق (munāsiq)
  • Passive participle: مُنَاسَق (munāsaq)
• Form IV: أَنْسَقَ (ʔansaqa)
  • Verbal noun: إِنْسَاق (ʔinsāq)
  • Active participle: مُنْسِق (munsiq)
  • Passive participle: مُنْسَق (munsaq)
• Form V: تَنَسَّقَ (tanassaqa)
  • Verbal noun: تَنَسُّق (tanassuq)
  • Active participle: مُتَنَسِّق (mutanassiq)
• Form VI: تَنَاسَقَ (tanāsaqa)
  • Verbal noun: تَنَاسُق (tanāsuq)
  • Active participle: مُتَنَاسِق (mutanāsiq)
• Form VIII: اِنْتَسَقَ (intasaqa)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْتِسَاق (intisāq)
  • Active participle: مُنْتَسِق (muntasiq)
  • Passive participle: مُنْتَسَق (muntasaq)

Nouns

• نَسَق m (nasaq, “order, setup”)

Adjectives

• نَسِيق (nasīq, “orderly”)

References

• Eilers, Wilhelm (1962) “Iranisches Lehngut im arabischen Lexikon”, in Indo-Iranian Journal (in German), volume 5, number 3, page 631
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ن س ق”, 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) “ن س ق”, 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 C^ie, page 1251
• 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 169
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ن س ق”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1269