فرصة

See also: فرضة

Arabic

Etymology 1

While it would be tempting to connect to the root ف ر ص (f r ṣ) related to slitting, being the timespan in which one’s camels have access to a body of water shared with other herders, Aramaic פורסא / ܦܘܪܣܐ (pursā, “way out, knack, strategy, scheme”), from Ancient Greek πόρος (póros), acknowledging its pervasive colloquial use, should be believed to have developed its semantics to a “chance, opportunity, occasion” as well and therefore served as the source of the present Arabic term.

Alternative forms

• فُرْسَة (fursa), فُصْرَة (fuṣra)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fur.sˤa/

Noun

فُرْصَة • (furṣa) f (plural فُرَص (furaṣ))

1. chance, occasion, opportunity

   Synonyms: نُهْزَة (nuhza), نَوْبة (nawba)

   اِسْتَغِل الْفُرْصَةَ عِنْدَمَا تَأْتِي، فَقَدْ لَا تَعُودُ مَرَّةً أُخْرَى.

   istaḡil al-furṣata ʕindamā taʔtī, faqad lā taʕūdu marratan ʔuḵrā.

   Seize the opportunity when it comes; it may not come again.

Declension

Declension of noun فُرْصَة (furṣa)

singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	فُرْصَة furṣa	الْفُرْصَة al-furṣa	فُرْصَة furṣat
nominative	فُرْصَةٌ furṣatun	الْفُرْصَةُ al-furṣatu	فُرْصَةُ furṣatu
accusative	فُرْصَةً furṣatan	الْفُرْصَةَ al-furṣata	فُرْصَةَ furṣata
genitive	فُرْصَةٍ furṣatin	الْفُرْصَةِ al-furṣati	فُرْصَةِ furṣati
dual	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	فُرْصَتَيْن furṣatayn	الْفُرْصَتَيْن al-furṣatayn	فُرْصَتَيْ furṣatay
nominative	فُرْصَتَانِ furṣatāni	الْفُرْصَتَانِ al-furṣatāni	فُرْصَتَا furṣatā
accusative	فُرْصَتَيْنِ furṣatayni	الْفُرْصَتَيْنِ al-furṣatayni	فُرْصَتَيْ furṣatay
genitive	فُرْصَتَيْنِ furṣatayni	الْفُرْصَتَيْنِ al-furṣatayni	فُرْصَتَيْ furṣatay
plural	basic broken plural triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	فُرَص furaṣ	الْفُرَص al-furaṣ	فُرَص furaṣ
nominative	فُرَصٌ furaṣun	الْفُرَصُ al-furaṣu	فُرَصُ furaṣu
accusative	فُرَصًا furaṣan	الْفُرَصَ al-furaṣa	فُرَصَ furaṣa
genitive	فُرَصٍ furaṣin	الْفُرَصِ al-furaṣi	فُرَصِ furaṣi

Descendants

• Gulf Arabic: فرصة (furṣa)
• Hijazi Arabic: فرصة (furṣa)
• → Azerbaijani: fürsət
• → Persian: فرصت (forsat)
  • → Bashkir: форсат (forsat)
  • → Bengali: ফুরসত (furśot)
  • → Gujarati: ફુરસદ (phursad), ફુરસત (phursat)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: फ़ुर्सत (fursat)

    Urdu: فرصت (fursat)

  • → Kannada: ಪುರುಸತ್ತು (purusattu)
  • → Kazakh: мұрсат (mursat)
  • → Marathi: फुरसत (phursat)
  • → Kyrgyz: бурсат (bursat)
  • → Sindhi: فُرصَتَ (furṣata)
  • → Uyghur: پۇرسەت (purset)
  • → Uzbek: fursat
• → Swahili: fursa
• → Ottoman Turkish: فرصت (fırsat)
  • Turkish: fırsat, fırsant, fırsand (dialectal)
  • → Armenian: ֆըռսանտ (fəṙsant), ֆռսանտ (fṙsant), ֆուռսանդ (fuṙsand), ֆուրսանդ (fursand), ֆըրսանդ (fərsand), ֆրսանդ (frsand), ֆըռսանդ (fəṙsand), ֆռսանդ (fṙsand)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: фу̀рса̄т, fùrsāt
• → Turkmen: pursat

Etymology 2

Root
ف ر ص (f r ṣ)
3 terms

From فَرَصَ (faraṣa, “to slit up”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fir.sˤa/

Noun

فِرْصَة • (firṣa) f (plural فِرَاص (firāṣ))

1. a rag to wipe the catamenia, pad

Declension

Declension of noun فِرْصَة (firṣa)

singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	فِرْصَة firṣa	الْفِرْصَة al-firṣa	فِرْصَة firṣat
nominative	فِرْصَةٌ firṣatun	الْفِرْصَةُ al-firṣatu	فِرْصَةُ firṣatu
accusative	فِرْصَةً firṣatan	الْفِرْصَةَ al-firṣata	فِرْصَةَ firṣata
genitive	فِرْصَةٍ firṣatin	الْفِرْصَةِ al-firṣati	فِرْصَةِ firṣati
dual	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	فِرْصَتَيْن firṣatayn	الْفِرْصَتَيْن al-firṣatayn	فِرْصَتَيْ firṣatay
nominative	فِرْصَتَانِ firṣatāni	الْفِرْصَتَانِ al-firṣatāni	فِرْصَتَا firṣatā
accusative	فِرْصَتَيْنِ firṣatayni	الْفِرْصَتَيْنِ al-firṣatayni	فِرْصَتَيْ firṣatay
genitive	فِرْصَتَيْنِ firṣatayni	الْفِرْصَتَيْنِ al-firṣatayni	فِرْصَتَيْ firṣatay
plural	basic broken plural triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	فِرَاص firāṣ	الْفِرَاص al-firāṣ	فِرَاص firāṣ
nominative	فِرَاصٌ firāṣun	الْفِرَاصُ al-firāṣu	فِرَاصُ firāṣu
accusative	فِرَاصًا firāṣan	الْفِرَاصَ al-firāṣa	فِرَاصَ firāṣa
genitive	فِرَاصٍ firāṣin	الْفِرَاصِ al-firāṣi	فِرَاصِ firāṣi

References

• 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 957
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886), Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 243, referring for the Aramaic emphatic state being reflected by Arabic ـَة f (-a) to Hoffmann, Georg (1878), “Bibliographische Anzeigen: I Gregorii Bar Ebhraya in evangelium Iohannis commentarius. E Thesauro mysteriorum desumptum edidit R. Schwartz. Gottingae, in aedibus Dietrichianis. MDCCCLXXVIII. 28 pp. 8. II Gregorii Abulfaragii Bar Ebhraya in actus apostolorum et epistulas catholicas adnotationes Syriace e recognitione Martini Klamroth. Diss. inaug. Gottingae, in aedibus Dietrichianis. MDCCCLXXVIII. 30 pp. 8”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[1] (in German), volume 32, page 760
• Freytag, Georg (1835), “فرصة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 334
• Landberg, Carlo, editor (1942), Glossaire daṯînois‎^[3] (in French), Leiden: Brill, page 2422

Gulf Arabic

Etymology

Inherited from Arabic فُرْصَة (furṣa).

Pronunciation

• (Kuwait) IPA^(key): /ˈfʊrsˤə/

Noun

فُرْصة • (furṣa) (dual فُرْصِتين (furṣitēn), plural فُرَص (furaṣ))

1. chance, opportunity
2. (K-12) recess

   Synonym: (a recess at a tertiary education institute (a break)) بريك (brēk)

Hijazi Arabic

Root
ف ر ص
1 term

Etymology

Inherited from Arabic فُرْصَة (furṣa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fur.sˤa/, [fʊr.sˤa]

Noun

فُرْصَة • (furṣa) f (plural فُرَص (furaṣ))

1. chance, opportunity