لص

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Arabic

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek λῃστής (lēistḗs).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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لِصّ (liṣṣm (plural لُصُوص (luṣūṣ) or أَلْصَاص (ʔalṣāṣ), feminine لِصَّة (liṣṣa))

  1. thief, robber
    Synonym: سَارِق (sāriq)
    Hyponym: سَرَّاق (sarrāq)
    مَكَانَكَ أَيُّهَا اللِّصُّ!
    makānaka ʔayyuhā l-liṣṣu!
    Stand there, thief!

Declension

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Noun

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لُصّ (luṣṣm (plural لُصُوص (luṣūṣ) or أَلْصَاص (ʔalṣāṣ), feminine لُصَّة (luṣṣa))

  1. (obsolete) thief

Verb

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لَصَّ (laṣṣa) I (non-past يَلُصُّ (yaluṣṣu), verbal noun لَصّ (laṣṣ)) (obsolete, transitive)

  1. to steal
  2. to do secretly
  3. to close (the door)

Conjugation

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Synonyms

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Verb

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(obsolete)

  1. to be a thief, to be thievish, to steal repeatedly
  2. to have teeth close together
  3. to have hunched shoulders, to stoop (of a person or horse)
  4. to have one's thighs close together (of a woman)
  5. to be narrow (of one's forehead)
  6. to have unevenly oriented horns (of a sheep)

Conjugation

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Noun

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لَصّ (laṣṣm

  1. (obsolete) verbal noun of لَصَّ (laṣṣa, to steal, to do secretly, to close (the door)) (form I)

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References

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  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 284
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “لص”, 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 104
  • Guidi, Ignazio (1879) Della sede primitiva dei popoli semitici (in Italian), Rome: Tipi del Salviucci, page 16
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “لص”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[2], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2659–2660
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “لص”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[3], London: W.H. Allen, page 917
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “لص”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1153