أساس
See also: اساس
Arabic
Etymology
From the root ء س س (ʾ-s-s).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʔa.saːs/
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Noun
أَسَاس • (ʾasās) m (plural أُسُس (ʾusus)), non-standard plural أَسَاسَات (ʾasāsāt)
- foundation, basis, base
- tenet
- 2018 March 17, “الغارديان بعد مقتل منشق روسي جديد في لندن: "يجب أن ننظر جيدا ما خلف سحب أكاذيب بوتين"”, in BBC Arabic:paraphrasing Jonathan Freedland on The Guardian: We have to see through Putin’s fog of lies, and take action now:
- ويقول فريدلاند إن "بوتين كحائز على الحزام الأسود في الألعاب القتالية لايرى في أساسات الديمقراطية مثل حرية التعبير وسيادة القانون إلا وسائد هوائية رخوة تصلح للتدرب عليها في تنفيذ الركلات".
- And Freedland says that “Putin, possessing a black-belt in fighting, doesn’t see in tenets of democracy like freedom of expression and rule of law anything but slack airbags fit for training to kick on them.”
- He has shown us how he sees, for example, the basic tenets of democracy – whether that’s free speech or belief in the rule of law, evidence and due process. To us, those may look like the firm pillars that hold up a decent society. But to a black-belt such as Putin they are rotten timbers, ripe for a good kicking and liable to bring down the whole edifice.
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- tenet
Declension
Declension of noun أَسَاس (ʾasās)
| Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | أَسَاس ʾasās | الْأَسَاس al-ʾasās | أَسَاس ʾasās |
| Nominative | أَسَاسٌ ʾasāsun | الْأَسَاسُ al-ʾasāsu | أَسَاسُ ʾasāsu |
| Accusative | أَسَاسًا ʾasāsan | الْأَسَاسَ al-ʾasāsa | أَسَاسَ ʾasāsa |
| Genitive | أَسَاسٍ ʾasāsin | الْأَسَاسِ al-ʾasāsi | أَسَاسِ ʾasāsi |
| Dual | Indefinite | Definite | Construct |
| Informal | أَسَاسَيْن ʾasāsayn | الْأَسَاسَيْن al-ʾasāsayn | أَسَاسَيْ ʾasāsay |
| Nominative | أَسَاسَانِ ʾasāsāni | الْأَسَاسَانِ al-ʾasāsāni | أَسَاسَا ʾasāsā |
| Accusative | أَسَاسَيْنِ ʾasāsayni | الْأَسَاسَيْنِ al-ʾasāsayni | أَسَاسَيْ ʾasāsay |
| Genitive | أَسَاسَيْنِ ʾasāsayni | الْأَسَاسَيْنِ al-ʾasāsayni | أَسَاسَيْ ʾasāsay |
| Plural | basic broken plural triptote; sound feminine plural | ||
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | أُسُس; أَسَاسَات ʾusus; ʾasāsāt | الْأُسُس; الْأَسَاسَات al-ʾusus; al-ʾasāsāt | أُسُس; أَسَاسَات ʾusus; ʾasāsāt |
| Nominative | أُسُسٌ; أَسَاسَاتٌ ʾususun; ʾasāsātun | الْأُسُسُ; الْأَسَاسَاتُ al-ʾususu; al-ʾasāsātu | أُسُسُ; أَسَاسَاتُ ʾususu; ʾasāsātu |
| Accusative | أُسُسًا; أَسَاسَاتٍ ʾususan; ʾasāsātin | الْأُسُسَ; الْأَسَاسَاتِ al-ʾususa; al-ʾasāsāti | أُسُسَ; أَسَاسَاتِ ʾususa; ʾasāsāti |
| Genitive | أُسُسٍ; أَسَاسَاتٍ ʾususin; ʾasāsātin | الْأُسُسِ; الْأَسَاسَاتِ al-ʾususi; al-ʾasāsāti | أُسُسِ; أَسَاسَاتِ ʾususi; ʾasāsāti |
Derived terms
- أَسَاسِيّ (ʾasāsiyy, “fundamental”)
Descendants
- Maltese: sies
- → Azerbaijani: əsas
- → Chagatai: اساس
- Uyghur: ئاساس (asas)
- Uzbek: asos
- → Malay: asas
- Indonesian: asas
- → Ottoman Turkish: اساس
- Turkish: esas
- → Persian: اساس (asâs)
- → Urdu: اساس (asās)
- → Portuguese: alicerce
- → Turkmen: esas
References
- Freytag, Georg (1830), “أساس”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 33
- Lane, Edward William (1863), “أساس”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 56
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “أساس”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 33
- Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “أساس”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 22
South Levantine Arabic
| Root |
|---|
| ا س س |
Etymology
From Arabic أَسَاس (ʾasās).
Noun
أساس • (ʔasās) f (plural أسس (ʔusos))
- basis, foundation (literal and figurative)
- على أساس إنّ ― ʔala ʔasās inn ― on the basis that..., on the condition that...