وسط

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
و س ط (w-s-ṭ)

Compare Classical Syriac ܝܫܛܐ (yašṭā, esophagus, throat) and Ge'ez ውሳጤ (wəsaṭe, inside, interior).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wa.satˤ/
  • IPA(key): /wastˤ/
  • (file)

Noun

وَسَط or وَسْط • (wasaṭ or wasṭ) m (plural أَوْسَاط (ʔawsāṭ))

  1. middle, center
  2. waist
  3. the golden mean
  4. milieu, environment, surroundings, sphere
  5. means, instrument, agent, medium
  6. mediocrity, medium quality, average
  7. (in the plural) circles, quarters, classes, strata (of population)
Declension

Preposition

وَسْطَ or وَسَطَ • (wasṭa or wasaṭa)

  1. amidst, midst, at the center of, in the middle of, among, amongst
Inflection
    Inflected forms
Base form وَسْطَ (wasṭa)
Personal-pronoun-
including forms
Singular Dual Plural
Masculine Feminine Common Masculine Feminine
First person وَسْطِي (wasṭī) وَسْطَنَا (wasṭanā)
Second person وَسْطَكَ (wasṭaka) وَسْطَكِ (wasṭaki) وَسْطَكُمَا (wasṭakumā) وَسْطَكُمْ (wasṭakum) وَسْطَكُنَّ (wasṭakunna)
Third person وَسْطَهُ (wasṭahu) وَسْطَهَا (wasṭahā) وَسْطَهُمَا (wasṭahumā) وَسْطَهُمْ (wasṭahum) وَسْطَهُنَّ (wasṭahunna)
    Inflected forms
Base form وَسَطَ (wasaṭa)
Personal-pronoun-
including forms
Singular Dual Plural
Masculine Feminine Common Masculine Feminine
First person وَسَطِي (wasaṭī) وَسَطَنَا (wasaṭanā)
Second person وَسَطَكَ (wasaṭaka) وَسَطَكِ (wasaṭaki) وَسَطَكُمَا (wasaṭakumā) وَسَطَكُمْ (wasaṭakum) وَسَطَكُنَّ (wasaṭakunna)
Third person وَسَطَهُ (wasaṭahu) وَسَطَهَا (wasaṭahā) وَسَطَهُمَا (wasaṭahumā) وَسَطَهُمْ (wasaṭahum) وَسَطَهُنَّ (wasaṭahunna)

Further reading

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wa.sa.tˤa/

Verb

وَسَطَ • (wasaṭa) I, non-past يَسِطُ‎ (yasiṭu)

  1. to be in the middle, to penetrate into the middle
Conjugation

Further reading

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /was.sa.tˤa/

Verb

وَسَّطَ • (wassaṭa) II, non-past يُوَسِّطُ‎ (yuwassiṭu)

  1. to place or put in the middle
Conjugation

Further reading

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wu.satˤ/

Adjective

وُسَط • (wusaṭ) f pl

  1. feminine plural of أَوْسَط (ʔawsaṭ)

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic وَسَط (wasaṭ).

Pronunciation

  • (file)
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [wä.sät̪]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [wä.sät̪]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [wä.sät̪]

Readings
Classical reading? wasat
Dari reading? wasat
Iranian reading? vasat
Tajik reading? vasat

Noun

وَسَط • (vasat)

  1. middle, center
    Synonym: میان (miyân)
    وسط بهارvasat-e bahârmiddle of spring
    در وسط اصفهانdar vasat-e esfahânin the middle of Isfahan
  2. (mathematics) average

Descendants

  • Hindustani: vasat
    Urdu: وَسَط (vasat)
    Hindi: औसत (ausat)
  • Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਵਸਤ (vasat)
    Shahmukhi script: وَسَط (vasat̤)
  • Turkish: vasat (check ancestor whether Arabic or Persian)
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