ش ر س

Arabic

Etymology

An extension of ش ر ر (š-r-r), as also ش ر ش ر (š-r-š-r).

Root

ش ر س • (š-r-s)

1. related to being harsh towards something, malignancy

Derived terms

• Form I: شَرَسَ (šarasa, “to pull at the rein; to macerate; to utter harsh words against someone; to devour with vehemence”)
  • Verbal noun: شَرْس (šars)
  • Active participle: شَارِس (šāris)
  • Passive participle: مَشْرُوس (mašrūs)
• Form I: شَرِسَ (šarisa, “to be fierce, to be rabid; to be assiduous or continuous in depasturing”)
  • Verbal noun: شَرَس (šaras), شَرَاسَة (šarāsa)
  • Active participle: شَارِس (šāris)
• Form III: شَارَسَ (šārasa, “to treat harshly”)
  • Verbal noun: مُشَارَسَة (mušārasa), شِرَاس (širās)
  • Active participle: مُشَارِس (mušāris)
  • Passive participle: مُشَارَس (mušāras)
• Form VI: تَشَارَسَ (tašārasa, “to treat each other with enmity”)
  • Verbal noun: تَشَارُس (tašārus)
  • Active participle: مُتَشَارِس (mutašāris)

• شَرِس (šaris, “fierce, ferocious, harsh”), also شَرِيس (šarīs)
• أَشْرَس (ʔašras, “malignant, difficult, extra-harsh”)
• شُرَّاس (šurrās, “harsh (of ground)”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ش ر س”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 744a
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ش ر س”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 410b
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ش ر س”, 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^[3] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1214a
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ش ر س”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1532
• Růžička, Rudolf (1909) “Konsonantische Dissimilation in den semitischen Sprachen”, in Beiträge zur Assyriologie und semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎^[5] (in German), volume VI, number 4, Leipzig · Baltimore: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung · The Johns Hopkins Press, page 13
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ش ر س”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 542b