و ش ي

Arabic

Root

و ش ي • (w-š-y)

1. related to variegation

Derived terms

• Form I: وَشَى (wašā, “to variegate, to embroider, to embellish with striped colours, to tinsel; to refine with fabrications, to add sham to”)
  • Verbal noun: وَشْي (wašy)
  • Active participle: وَاشٍ (wāšin)
  • Passive participle: مَوْشِيّ (mawšiyy)
• Form I: وَشَى (wašā, “to denounce, to rat on, to finger, to snitch on”)
  • Verbal noun: وَشْي (wašy), وِشَايَة (wišāya)
  • Active participle: وَاشٍ (wāšin)
  • Passive participle: مَوْشِيّ (mawšiyy)
• Form II: وَشَّى (waššā, “to embellish, to ornament”)
  • Verbal noun: تَوْشِيَة (tawšiya)
  • Active participle: مُوَشٍّ (muwaššin)
  • Passive participle: مُوَشًّى (muwaššan)
• Form IV: أَوْشَى (ʔawšā, “to spur on to test the running power of; to bring out, to pull out; to abundate”)
  • Verbal noun: إِيشَاء (ʔīšāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُوشٍ (mūšin)
  • Passive participle: مُوشًى (mūšan)
• Form V: تَوَشَّى (tawaššā, “to be embroidered, to be variegated”)
  • Verbal noun: تَوَشٍّ (tawaššin)
  • Active participle: مُتَوَشٍّ (mutawaššin)
• Form X: اِسْتَوْشَى (istawšā, “to spur on to test the running power of”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِيشَاء (istīšāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَوْشٍ (mustawšin)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَوْشًى (mustawšan)

• وَشْي (wašy, “embroidery, embellishment of variegation”)
• شِيَة (šiya, “spot, sign of refinement”)
• وَشَّاء (waššāʔ, “seller of variegated cloths”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “و ش ي”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 809
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “و ش ي”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 471
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “و ش ي”, 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 1545–1546
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “و ش ي”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[4], London: W.H. Allen, page 1215
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “و ش ي”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1403