See also: نسأ

Arabic

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Root
ن ش ء (n š ʔ)
8 terms

Etymology 1

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From Proto-Semitic *naśaʔ- (lift, raise). Compare Ge'ez ነሥአ (näśʾä, to lift, to take), Akkadian 𒈾𒋗𒌑𒌝 (našûm) and Biblical Hebrew נָשָׂא (nɔśɔʾ).

Verb

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نَشَأَ (našaʔa) I (non-past يَنْشَأُ (yanšaʔu), verbal noun نَشْء (našʔ) or نُشُوء (nušūʔ) or نَشَاء (našāʔ) or نَشَاءَة (našāʔa))

  1. to be raised, to be lifted, to rise up
  2. to grow (intransitive), grow up, be brought up
  3. to originate, exist, live
  4. to occur, especially to arise in the mind, to have a thought occur to someone, to have an event come up
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نَشَّأَ (naššaʔa) II (non-past يُنَشِّئُ (yunaššiʔu), verbal noun تَنْشِئَة (tanšiʔa))

  1. to nurture
  2. to raise
  3. to bring up
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Etymology 2

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نشأ (form I)

  1. نَشَأْ (našaʔ) /na.ʃaʔ/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of شَاءَ (šāʔa)
  2. نُشَأْ (nušaʔ) /nu.ʃaʔ/: first-person plural non-past passive jussive of شَاءَ (šāʔa)