عصعص

Arabic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʕusˤ.ʕusˤ/

Noun

عُصْعُص • (ʕuṣʕuṣ) m (plural عَصَاعِص (ʕaṣāʕiṣ))

1. coccyx

Declension

Declension of noun عُصْعُص (ʕuṣʕuṣ)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	عُصْعُص ʕuṣʕuṣ	الْعُصْعُص al-ʕuṣʕuṣ	عُصْعُص ʕuṣʕuṣ
Nominative	عُصْعُصٌ ʕuṣʕuṣun	الْعُصْعُصُ al-ʕuṣʕuṣu	عُصْعُصُ ʕuṣʕuṣu
Accusative	عُصْعُصًا ʕuṣʕuṣan	الْعُصْعُصَ al-ʕuṣʕuṣa	عُصْعُصَ ʕuṣʕuṣa
Genitive	عُصْعُصٍ ʕuṣʕuṣin	الْعُصْعُصِ al-ʕuṣʕuṣi	عُصْعُصِ ʕuṣʕuṣi
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	عُصْعُصَيْن ʕuṣʕuṣayn	الْعُصْعُصَيْن al-ʕuṣʕuṣayn	عُصْعُصَيْ ʕuṣʕuṣay
Nominative	عُصْعُصَانِ ʕuṣʕuṣāni	الْعُصْعُصَانِ al-ʕuṣʕuṣāni	عُصْعُصَا ʕuṣʕuṣā
Accusative	عُصْعُصَيْنِ ʕuṣʕuṣayni	الْعُصْعُصَيْنِ al-ʕuṣʕuṣayni	عُصْعُصَيْ ʕuṣʕuṣay
Genitive	عُصْعُصَيْنِ ʕuṣʕuṣayni	الْعُصْعُصَيْنِ al-ʕuṣʕuṣayni	عُصْعُصَيْ ʕuṣʕuṣay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	عَصَاعِص ʕaṣāʕiṣ	الْعَصَاعِص al-ʕaṣāʕiṣ	عَصَاعِص ʕaṣāʕiṣ
Nominative	عَصَاعِصُ ʕaṣāʕiṣu	الْعَصَاعِصُ al-ʕaṣāʕiṣu	عَصَاعِصُ ʕaṣāʕiṣu
Accusative	عَصَاعِصَ ʕaṣāʕiṣa	الْعَصَاعِصَ al-ʕaṣāʕiṣa	عَصَاعِصَ ʕaṣāʕiṣa
Genitive	عَصَاعِصَ ʕaṣāʕiṣa	الْعَصَاعِصِ al-ʕaṣāʕiṣi	عَصَاعِصِ ʕaṣāʕiṣi

Descendants

• Egyptian Arabic: عصعص (“ʿúṣʿuṣ”)

References

• “عصعص” in Almaany

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عُصْعُص (ʕuṣʕuṣ, “coccyx”).

Noun

عصعص • (ʼusʼus)

1. coccyx, tailbone, the final fused vertebrae at the base of the spine

   Synonym: قویروق كمیكی (kuyruk kemiği)

Descendants

• Turkish: us’us

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “us’us”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5000
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “عصعص”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 848
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “عصعص”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 3274
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عصعص”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1304