أساسي

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See also: اساسی

Arabic

Etymology

Relative adjective (nisba) composed of أَسَاس (ʔasās, foundation, basis) +‎ ـِيّ (-iyy).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔa.saː.sijj/
  • Audio:(file)

Adjective

أَسَاسِيّ (ʔasāsiyy) (feminine أَسَاسِيَّة (ʔasāsiyya), masculine plural أَسَاسِيُّونَ (ʔasāsiyyūna), feminine plural أَسَاسِيَّات (ʔasāsiyyāt))

  1. fundamental, basic
  2. elementary
  3. essential
  4. main
  5. fundamentalist

Declension

References

  • Haywood, J.A., Nahmad, H.M. (1965) “أساسي”, in A new Arabic grammar, 2nd edition, London: Lund Humphries, →ISBN
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “أساسي”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[1], London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “أس”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Noun

أَسَاسِيّ (ʔasāsiyym, plural أَسَاسِيُّون (ʔasāsiyyūn), feminine أَسَاسِيَّة (ʔasāsiyya)

  1. fundamentalist

Declension

References

  • Haywood, J.A., Nahmad, H.M. (1965) “أساسي”, in A new Arabic grammar, 2nd edition, London: Lund Humphries, →ISBN