عنصر

Arabic

Root
ع ن ص ر (ʕ-n-ṣ-r)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʕun.sˤur/

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Noun

عُنْصُر • (ʕunṣur) m (plural عَنَاصِر (ʕanāṣir))

1. (also chemistry) element
2. race

   Synonyms: (commoner) عِرْق (ʕirq), (ambiguous) جِنْس (jins)

3. origin
4. (chiefly in the plural) member(s) of a group, especially a criminal or militant one

Declension

Declension of noun عُنْصُر (ʕunṣur)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	عُنْصُر ʕunṣur	الْعُنْصُر al-ʕunṣur	عُنْصُر ʕunṣur
Nominative	عُنْصُرٌ ʕunṣurun	الْعُنْصُرُ al-ʕunṣuru	عُنْصُرُ ʕunṣuru
Accusative	عُنْصُرًا ʕunṣuran	الْعُنْصُرَ al-ʕunṣura	عُنْصُرَ ʕunṣura
Genitive	عُنْصُرٍ ʕunṣurin	الْعُنْصُرِ al-ʕunṣuri	عُنْصُرِ ʕunṣuri
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	عُنْصُرَيْن ʕunṣurayn	الْعُنْصُرَيْن al-ʕunṣurayn	عُنْصُرَيْ ʕunṣuray
Nominative	عُنْصُرَانِ ʕunṣurāni	الْعُنْصُرَانِ al-ʕunṣurāni	عُنْصُرَا ʕunṣurā
Accusative	عُنْصُرَيْنِ ʕunṣurayni	الْعُنْصُرَيْنِ al-ʕunṣurayni	عُنْصُرَيْ ʕunṣuray
Genitive	عُنْصُرَيْنِ ʕunṣurayni	الْعُنْصُرَيْنِ al-ʕunṣurayni	عُنْصُرَيْ ʕunṣuray
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	عَنَاصِر ʕanāṣir	الْعَنَاصِر al-ʕanāṣir	عَنَاصِر ʕanāṣir
Nominative	عَنَاصِرُ ʕanāṣiru	الْعَنَاصِرُ al-ʕanāṣiru	عَنَاصِرُ ʕanāṣiru
Accusative	عَنَاصِرَ ʕanāṣira	الْعَنَاصِرَ al-ʕanāṣira	عَنَاصِرَ ʕanāṣira
Genitive	عَنَاصِرَ ʕanāṣira	الْعَنَاصِرِ al-ʕanāṣiri	عَنَاصِرِ ʕanāṣiri

Derived terms

• عُنْصُرِيّ (ʕunṣuriyy)
• عُنْصُرِيّة (ʕunṣuriyya)

 

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: ünsür
• → Malay: unsur
  • > Indonesian: unsur (inherited)
• → Ottoman Turkish: عنصر (ʿunsur)

  > Turkish: unsur (inherited)

• → Persian: عنصر ('onsor).
  • → Urdu: عنصر (unsur)
• → Uyghur: ئۇنسۇر (unsur)
• → Uzbek: unsur

References

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “عنصر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 760

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عُنْصُر (ʕunṣur).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔun.suɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔʊn.sʊɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔʊn.sʊɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔʊn.sʊɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔun.suɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔon.soɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔun.suɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	unsur
Dari reading?	unsur
Iranian reading?	onsor
Tajik reading?	unsur

Noun

عنصر • ('onsor)

1. (chemistry) element

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian عُنْصُر ('unsur), from Arabic عُنْصُر (ʕunṣur).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)ʊn.sʊɾ/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): /ʊn.səɾ/
• Rhymes: -ʊɾ, -əɾ

Noun

عُنْصُر • (ʻunṣur) m (formal plural عَناصِر ('anāsir), Hindi spelling उनसुर)

1. (chemistry) element, essence
2. element, component, part

Declension

Declension of عنصر
	singular	plural
direct	عُنْصُر (ʻunṣur)	عُنْصُر (ʻunṣur)
oblique	عُنْصُر (ʻunṣur)	عُنْصُروں (ʻunṣurō̃)
vocative	عُنْصُر (ʻunṣur)	عُنْصُرو (ʻunṣurō)

Further reading

• “عنصر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “عنصر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “عنصر”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.