إصابة

Arabic

Etymology

Verbal noun of أَصَابَ (ʔaṣāba, to hit the target, to injure), from the root ص و ب (ṣ-w-b).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔi.sˤaː.ba/

Noun

إِصَابَة • (ʔiṣāba) f (plural إِصَابَات (ʔiṣābāt))

  1. verbal noun of أَصَابَ (ʔaṣāba, to hit the target, to injure) (form IV)
  2. injury, trauma
  3. score (number of points earned)
  4. a hitting shot
  5. right aiming
  6. sound judgment
  7. rectitude

Declension

Descendants

  • Ottoman Turkish: اصابت (isabet)

References

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “إصابة”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “إصابة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
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