و ش ي

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 (ʾawšā, “to spur on to test the running power of; to bring out, to pull out; to abundate”)
  • Verbal noun: إِيشَاء‎ (ʾīšāʾ)
  • 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 (istīšāʾ)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَوْشٍ‎ (mustawšin)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَوْشًى‎ (mustawšan)

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

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “و ش ي”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (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 (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 (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, London: W.H. Allen, page 1215
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “و ش ي”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1403