Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

Seemingly a Middle Iranian borrowing equivalent to Persian لاش (lâš). Prefixation to ع ي ش (ʕ-y-š) as in نَوْرَج (nawraj) is also considered. The verbs in the root ن ع ش (n-ʕ-š) are denominal in any case.

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

نَعْش (naʕšm (plural نُعُوش (nuʕūš))

  1. corpse (human)
  2. bier, stretcher
    • 577 AH / 1181–82 CE, ابن هشام اللخمي [Ibn Hišām al-Laḵmiyy], edited by José Pérez Lázaro, الْمَدْخَلُ إِلَى تَقْوِيمِ اللِسَانِ وَتَعْلِيمِ الْبَيَانِ (al-madḵalu ʔilā taqwīmi l-lisāni wataʕlīmi l-bayāni) (Fuentes Arábico-Hispanas; 6), volume II, Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, published 1990, →ISBN, page 290 Nr. 309:
      ويقولون للّذي يُحْمَلُ عليه الميّت النَّعَاشُ. والصّواب النَّعْشُ. قال الشّاعر:
      أَمَحْمُولٌ عَلَى النَّعْشِ الهُمَامُ
      Them man say for that on which one is carried dead naʕāš. The right is naʕš. A poet (al-Nābiḡa aḏ-Ḏubyāni) said:
      I am carried high on the bier.
Declension edit
Descendants edit
  • Middle Armenian: նաշ (naš)
  • Persian: نعش (na'š)
  • Ottoman Turkish: نعش (naʼş)

Verb edit

نَعَشَ (naʕaša) I, non-past يَنْعَشُ‎ (yanʕašu)

  1. to lift up, to raise
  2. to animate, to revive, to restore in health or wealth
  3. to praise, to eulogize
Conjugation edit

Verb edit

نَعَّشَ (naʕʕaša) II, non-past يُنَعِّشُ‎ (yunaʕʕišu)

  1. to lift up, to raise
  2. to say to someone that he shall rise
Conjugation edit

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

نَعِشْ (naʕiš) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of عَاشَ (ʕāša)

Verb edit

نُعَشْ (nuʕaš) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past passive jussive of عَاشَ (ʕāša)

References edit

  • 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 1272–1273
  • Schiaparelli, Celestino (1871), “نعش”, in Vocabulista in arabico. Pubblicato per la prima volta sopra un codice della Biblioteca Riccardiana di Firenze, Firenze: Tipografia dei successori Le Monnier, page 206a
  • Schiaparelli, Celestino (1871), “نعش”, in Vocabulista in arabico. Pubblicato per la prima volta sopra un codice della Biblioteca Riccardiana di Firenze, Firenze: Tipografia dei successori Le Monnier, page 387
  • Shapira, Dan D. Y. (2009), “Irano-Arabica: contamination and popular etymology. Notes on the Persian and Arabic lexicons (with references to Aramaic, Hebrew and Turkic)”, in Христианский Восток – Новая Серия, volume 5 (XI), Moscow: Издательство Российской Академии Наук и Государственного Эрмитажа, page 177 fn. 86

Persian edit

Etymology edit

From Arabic نَعْش (naʕš). If that is of Iranian origin, doublet of لاش (lâš).

Noun edit

نعش (na'š)

  1. corpse (human)