Arabic edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λῃστής (lēistḗs).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

لِصّ (liṣṣm (plural لُصُوص (luṣūṣ) or أَلْصَاص (ʔalṣāṣ), feminine لِصَّة (liṣṣa))

  1. thief, robber
    Synonym: سَارِق (sāriq)
    Hyponym: سَرَّاق (sarrāq)
    مَكَانَكَ أَيُّهَا اللِّصُّ!
    makānaka ʔayyuhā l-liṣṣu!
    Stand there, thief!

Declension edit

Noun edit

لُصّ (luṣṣm (plural لُصُوص (luṣūṣ) or أَلْصَاص (ʔalṣāṣ), feminine لُصَّة (luṣṣa))

  1. (obsolete) thief

Verb edit

لَصَّ (laṣṣa) I, non-past يَلُصُّ or يَلِصُّ‎ (yaluṣṣu or yaliṣṣu)

  1. (obsolete) to steal

Conjugation edit

Verb edit

لَصَّ (laṣṣa) I, non-past يَلُصُّ‎ (yaluṣṣu)

  1. (obsolete) to do secretly

Conjugation edit

Verb edit

لَصَّ (laṣṣa) I, non-past يَلَصُّ‎ (yalaṣṣu)

  1. (obsolete) to close (the door)

Conjugation edit

Synonyms edit

Verb edit

لَصَّ (laṣṣa) I, non-past يَلَصُّ‎ (yalaṣṣu)

  1. (obsolete) to have teeth close together

Conjugation edit

Noun edit

لَصّ (laṣṣm

  1. (obsolete) verbal noun of لَصَّ (laṣṣa, to steal, to do secretly, to close (the door)) (form I)

Declension edit

References edit

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 284
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “لص”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 104
  • Guidi, Ignazio (1879) Della sede primitiva dei popoli semitici (in Italian), Rome: Tipi del Salviucci, page 16
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “لص”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[2], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2659–2660
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “لص”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[3], London: W.H. Allen, page 917
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “لص”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1153