ن و ص

Arabic

Root

ن و ص • (n-w-ṣ)

1. related to evitation, escape, avoidance

Derived terms

• Form I: نَاصَ (nāṣa, “to escape, to evite, to avoid”)
  • Verbal noun: مَنَاص (manāṣ), نَوْص (nawṣ)
  • Active participle: نَائِص (nāʔiṣ)
• Form III: نَاوَصَ (nāwaṣa, “to treat, to undertake”)
  • Verbal noun: مُنَاوَصَة (munāwaṣa), نِوَاص (niwāṣ)
  • Active participle: مُنَاوِص (munāwiṣ)
  • Passive participle: مُنَاوَص (munāwaṣ)
• Form IV: أَنَاصَ (ʔanāṣa, “to move”)
  • Verbal noun: إِنَاصَة (ʔināṣa)
  • Active participle: مُنِيص (munīṣ)
  • Passive participle: مُنَاص (munāṣ)
• Form VIII: اِنْتَاصَ (intāṣa, “to glim, to fade”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْتِيَاص (intiyāṣ)
  • Active participle: مُنْتَاص (muntāṣ)
• Form X: اِسْتَنَاصَ (istanāṣa, “to recede, to remain behind; to move onto the desired track”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِنَاصَة (istināṣa)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَنِيص (mustanīṣ)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَنَاص (mustanāṣ)

• نَوْص (nawṣ, “wild-ass”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ن و ص”, 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 352
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ن و ص”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[2], London: W.H. Allen, page 1155
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ن و ص”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1328–1329