ن س خ

Arabic

Etymology

Denominal from نَسَخَ (nasaḵa), without prejudice to possible additional direct borrowings from the same Aramaic root.

Root

ن س خ • (n-s-ḵ)

1. related to deletion
2. related to copying

Derived terms

Verbs

• Form I: نَسَخَ (nasaḵa)
  • Verbal noun: نَسْخ (nasḵ)
  • Active participle: نَاسِخ (nāsiḵ)
  • Passive participle: مَنْسُوخ (mansūḵ)
• Form III: نَاسَخَ (nāsaḵa)
  • Verbal noun: مُنَاسَخَة (munāsaḵa), نِسَاخ (nisāḵ)
  • Active participle: مُنَاسِخ (munāsiḵ)
  • Passive participle: مُنَاسَخ (munāsaḵ)
• Form V: تَنَسَّخَ (tanassaḵa)
  • Verbal noun: تَنَسُّخ (tanassuḵ)
  • Active participle: مُتَنَسِّخ (mutanassiḵ)
• Form VI: تَنَاسَخَ (tanāsaḵa)
  • Verbal noun: تَنَاسُخ (tanāsuḵ)
  • Active participle: مُتَنَاسِخ (mutanāsiḵ)
• Form VIII: اِنْتَسَخَ (intasaḵa)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْتِسَاخ (intisāḵ)
  • Active participle: مُنْتَسِخ (muntasiḵ)
  • Passive participle: مُنْتَسَخ (muntasaḵ)
• Form X: اِسْتَنْسَخَ (istansaḵa)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِنْسَاخ (istinsāḵ)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَنْسِخ (mustansiḵ)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَنْسَخ (mustansaḵ)

Nouns

• نَاسِخَة (nāsiḵa)
• نَسَّاخ (nassāḵ)
• نُسْخَة (nusḵa)
• نُسْخِيَّة (nusḵiyya, “dissite earth”)

Further reading

• “nsḥ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 1258–1259
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ن س خ”, 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, pages 272–273
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ن س خ”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[2], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2788–2789
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ن س خ”, 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 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1247–1248
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ن س خ”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1128