بصير

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Arabic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From the root ب ص ر (b-ṣ-r).

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

بَصِير (baṣīr) (masculine plural بُصَرَاء (buṣarāʔ) or بَصِيرُونَ (baṣīrūna), feminine plural بَصِيرَات (baṣīrāt) or بَصَائِر (baṣāʔir) or بِصَار (biṣār), elative أَبْصَر (ʔabṣar))

  1. well-seeing; having eyesight, seeing, sighted
    Antonym: أَعْمَى (ʔaʕmā)
  2. (figuratively)
    1. clairvoyant, observant, perspicacious
    2. well-versed, conversant, informed
  3. (antiphrastically, rare) blind

Declension[edit]

References[edit]

  • Fischer, August (1907), “Arab. baṣīr „scharfsichtig“ per antiphrasin = „blind“”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft[1], volume 61, pages 425–434
  • Fischer, August (1907), “Kleine Mitteilungen: Baṣīr „blind””, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft[2], volume 61, pages 751–753