نصي

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Arabic[edit]

Root
ن ص و (n-ṣ-w)

Noun[edit]

نَصِيّ (naṣiyym (collective, singulative نَصِيَّة f (naṣiyya))

  1. Stipagrostis spp., especially Stipagrostis plumosa, an important perennial grazing grass
    Synonyms: سَبَط (sabaṭ), ثَغَام (ṯaḡām)

Declension[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Gulf Arabic: نُصِي (nuṣī)
  • Najdi Arabic: نُصِي (nuṣī)

References[edit]

  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “نصي”, 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 290
  • Mandaville, James Paul (2011) Bedouin Ethnobotany. Plant Concepts and Uses in a Desert Pastoral World, Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, pages 74, 110, 234, 262, 336
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “نصي”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[2], London: W.H. Allen, page 1140
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “نصي”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1281