ناسك

Arabic

Etymology

Likely borrowed from a base stem active participle of the matching Aramaic root meaning in the widespread base stem “to pour out”, “to cast” – of which sense in the passive participle form نَسِيك (nasīk, “ingot of gold or silver”) derives as a separate borrowing from Aramaic – and in a technical cultic sense “to libate”, a root related to the Arabic ن ز ع (n-z-ʕ); considering also that the other terms within the root formula نَسَكَ (nasaka, “to lead a devout or virtuous or ascetic life”), تَنَسَّكَ (tanassaka, “to be devout or virtuous or ascetic”), نَُِسك (nask, nusk, nisk, “devotion to a god”), مَنْسَِك (mansak, mansik, “place of ritual, stead frequented for ceremony”) have most probably been contrived on the model of the present term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naː.sik/

Noun

نَاسِك • (nāsik) m (plural نُسَّاك (nussāk))

1. ascetic

Declension

Declension of noun نَاسِك (nāsik)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	نَاسِك nāsik	النَّاسِك an-nāsik	نَاسِك nāsik
Nominative	نَاسِكٌ nāsikun	النَّاسِكُ an-nāsiku	نَاسِكُ nāsiku
Accusative	نَاسِكًا nāsikan	النَّاسِكَ an-nāsika	نَاسِكَ nāsika
Genitive	نَاسِكٍ nāsikin	النَّاسِكِ an-nāsiki	نَاسِكِ nāsiki
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	نَاسِكَيْن nāsikayn	النَّاسِكَيْن an-nāsikayn	نَاسِكَيْ nāsikay
Nominative	نَاسِكَانِ nāsikāni	النَّاسِكَانِ an-nāsikāni	نَاسِكَا nāsikā
Accusative	نَاسِكَيْنِ nāsikayni	النَّاسِكَيْنِ an-nāsikayni	نَاسِكَيْ nāsikay
Genitive	نَاسِكَيْنِ nāsikayni	النَّاسِكَيْنِ an-nāsikayni	نَاسِكَيْ nāsikay
Plural	basic broken plural triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	نُسَّاك nussāk	النُّسَّاك an-nussāk	نُسَّاك nussāk
Nominative	نُسَّاكٌ nussākun	النُّسَّاكُ an-nussāku	نُسَّاكُ nussāku
Accusative	نُسَّاكًا nussākan	النُّسَّاكَ an-nussāka	نُسَّاكَ nussāka
Genitive	نُسَّاكٍ nussākin	النُّسَّاكِ an-nussāki	نُسَّاكِ nussāki

References

• “nsk²”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 152
• Baalbaki, Rohi (1995) “ناسك”, in Al-Mawrid: A Modern Arabic-English Dictionary, 7th edition, Beirut: Dar El-Ilm Lilmalayin, →ISBN
• Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “ناسك”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1260, imagining it instead cognate
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ناسك”, 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 275
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ناسك”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1251
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ناسك”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate
• Wehr, Hans (1960) “ناسك”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ناسك”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1129