عصمة

Arabic

Root
ع ص م (ʕ-ṣ-m)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʕisˤ.ma/

Noun

عِصْمَة • (ʕiṣma) f

1. defense; protection
2. chastity, purity, modesty, virtuousness
3. (religion) infallibility; the inability to issue a wrong teaching (as e.g. of the Shiite imams or Catholic popes)
   1. (Islam) 'ismah

Declension

Declension of noun عِصْمَة (ʕiṣma)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	عِصْمَة ʕiṣma	الْعِصْمَة al-ʕiṣma	عِصْمَة ʕiṣmat
Nominative	عِصْمَةٌ ʕiṣmatun	الْعِصْمَةُ al-ʕiṣmatu	عِصْمَةُ ʕiṣmatu
Accusative	عِصْمَةً ʕiṣmatan	الْعِصْمَةَ al-ʕiṣmata	عِصْمَةَ ʕiṣmata
Genitive	عِصْمَةٍ ʕiṣmatin	الْعِصْمَةِ al-ʕiṣmati	عِصْمَةِ ʕiṣmati

Derived terms

• عِصْمة بابَوِيّة (ʕiṣma(t) bābawiyya)
• عِصْمة صُغْرَى (ʕiṣma(t) ṣuḡrā)
• عِصْمة كُبْرَى (ʕiṣma(t) kubrā)

Descendants

• Persian: عصمت ('esmat)
• → Ottoman Turkish: عصمت (İsmet)
  • Turkish: İsmet
  • → Albanian: Ismet
  • → Serbo-Croatian: Ismet

References

• Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “عصمة”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “عصمة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[1], London: Williams & Norgate
• Wehr, Hans (1960) “عصمة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz