ع ب س

ع ب س • (ʕ-b-s)

1. related to distress

• Form I: عَبَسَ‎ (ʕabasa, “to show a crabbed face”)
  • Verbal noun: عَبْس‎ (ʕabs), عُبُوس‎ (ʕubūs)
  • Active participle: عَابِس‎ (ʕābis)
  • Passive participle: مَعْبُوس‎ (maʕbūs)
• Form I: عَبِسَ‎ (ʕabisa, “to get muck or urine dried upon oneself”)
  • Verbal noun: عَبَس‎ (ʕabas)
  • Active participle: عَابِس‎ (ʕābis)
  • Passive participle: مَعْبُوس‎ (maʕbūs)
• Form II: عَبَّسَ‎ (ʕabbasa, “to get a stern face”)
  • Verbal noun: تَعْبِيس‎ (taʕbīs)
  • Active participle: مُعَبِّس‎ (muʕabbis)
  • Passive participle: مُعَبَّس‎ (muʕabbas)
• Form IV: أَعْبَسَ‎ (ʔaʕbasa, “to get muck or urine dried upon oneself”)
  • Verbal noun: إِعْبَاس‎ (ʔiʕbās)
  • Active participle: مُعْبِس‎ (muʕbis)
• Form V: تَعَبَّسَ‎ (taʕabbasa, “to show a stern demeanour”)
  • Verbal noun: تَعَبُّس‎ (taʕabbus)
  • Active participle: مُتَعَبِّس‎ (mutaʕabbis)

• عَبَس‎ (ʕabas, “dried urine or dung upon the tail, muck, soil”)
• عَبُوس‎ (ʕabūs, “stern; distressful”)
• عَبَّاس‎ (ʕabbās, “always stern-faced”)

• Freytag, Georg (1835), “ع ب س”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 99
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ع ب س”, 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 (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page s155–156
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ع ب س”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1930