فصيح

See also: فصیح

Arabic

Root
ف ص ح (f-ṣ-ḥ)

Etymology

فَعِيل (faʕīl)-type stative-verb derived from the active participle from the verb فَصُحَ (faṣuḥa, to become eloquent).

Adjective

فَصِيح • (faṣīḥ) (feminine فَصِيحَة (faṣīḥa), common plural فِصَاح (fiṣāḥ), masculine plural فُصَحَاء (fuṣaḥāʔ) or فُصُح (fuṣuḥ), feminine plural فَصِيحَات (faṣīḥāt) or فَصَائِح (faṣāʔiḥ), elative أَفْصَح (ʔafṣaḥ))

  1. pure in language (especially of literary Arabic)
  2. eloquent
  3. fluent
  4. loquacious, voluble
  5. clear and distinct in speech

Declension

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: fəsih
  • Persian: فصیح (fasih)
  • Ottoman Turkish: فصیح
  • Indonesian: fasih
  • Malay: fasih
  • Swahili: fasihi

References

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

See also

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