آسن

See also: أسن

Arabic

Root
ء س ن (ʔ s n)
1 term

Adjective

آسِن • (ʔāsin)

1. brackish active participle of أَسِنَ (ʔasina), أَسَنَ (ʔasana)

   Synonym: زُعَاق (zuʕāq)

2. (figurative) stale, insipid
   • 2018, وَجْدِيّ الْأَهْدَل [wajdiyy al-ʔahdal], أرض المؤامرات السعيدة, Bayrūt: Nawfal / Hachette Antoine, →ISBN, page 175:

     ساعة وعشر دقائق من الحديث مع أطفالي كانت بمثابة غسل لروحي المُتعبة الآسنة.

     An hour and and ten minutes of talking with my children amounted to purification of my exhausted, insipid soul.

Baluchi

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *Háyah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háyas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éyos. Cognate with Persian آهن (âhan).

Noun

آسن • (ásan)

1. iron (metal)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit आसन (āsana).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑː.sən/

Noun

آسَن • (āsan) m (Hindi spelling आसन)

1. sitting
2. mode of sitting, posture, attitude, position

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “آسن”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884) “آسن”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.