ف ط س

ف ط س

Arabic

Etymology

Cognate to Aramaic פ־ט־שׁ‎ (p-ṭ-š) related to flatness.

Root

ف ط س • (f-ṭ-s)

1. related to flatness

Derived terms

• Form I: فَطَسَ‎ (faṭasa, “to die, to be snuffed”)
  • Verbal noun: فُطُوس‎ (fuṭūs)
  • Active participle: فَاطِس‎ (fāṭis)
  • Passive participle: مَفْطُوس‎ (mafṭūs)
• Form I: فَطَسَ‎ (faṭasa, “to tread vehemently, to beat down or flat”)
  • Verbal noun: فَطْس‎ (faṭs)
  • Active participle: فَاطِس‎ (fāṭis)
  • Passive participle: مَفْطُوس‎ (mafṭūs)
• Form I: فَطِسَ‎ (faṭisa, “to be camoys, to be flat-nosed, to have the bone of the nose wide and depressed”)
  • Verbal noun: فَطَس‎ (faṭas)
  • Active participle: فَاطِس‎ (fāṭis)
  • Passive participle: مَفْطُوس‎ (mafṭūs)
• Form II: فَطَّسَ‎ (faṭṭasa, “to kill, to suffocate, to strangulate”)
  • Verbal noun: تَفْطِيس‎ (tafṭīs)
  • Active participle: مُفَطِّس‎ (mufaṭṭis)
  • Passive participle: مُفَطَّس‎ (mufaṭṭas)

• أَفْطَس‎ (ʾafṭas, “flat-nosed, camoys, having the bone of the nose wide and depressed”)
• فِنْطَاس‎ (finṭās, “tank; trough”)
• فَطِيسَة‎ (faṭīsa, “cadaver”)
• فِطِّيسَة‎ (fiṭṭīsa, “snout”)
• فَطْس‎ (faṭs), singulative فَطْسَة‎ (faṭsa, “myrtle berries; beads or small spheres used for decoration or for fascination; skin of a beast that has not been slaughtered in a ritual manner”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “ف ط س”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 268–269
• Freytag, Georg (1835), “ف ط س”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 358a
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ف ط س”, 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 (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 612a
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ف ط س”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2417b-c
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “ف ط س”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 843