فصيح

See also: فصیح‎

Arabic
Root
ف ص ح‎ (f-ṣ-ḥ)

Etymology

فَعِيل (faʕīl)-type stative-verb derived from the active participle from the verb فَصُحَ‎ (faṣuḥa, “to become eloquent”).

Adjective

فَصِيح • (faṣīḥ) (feminine فَصِيحَة‎ (faṣīḥa), common plural فِصَاح‎ (fiṣāḥ), masculine plural فُصَحَاء‎ (fuṣaḥāʔ) or فُصُح‎ (fuṣuḥ), feminine plural فَصِيحَات‎ (faṣīḥāt) or فَصَائِح‎ (faṣāʔiḥ), elative أَفْصَح‎ (ʔafṣaḥ))

  1. pure in language (especially of literary Arabic)
  2. eloquent
  3. fluent
  4. loquacious, voluble
  5. clear and distinct in speech

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Synonyms

Descendants
  • → Azerbaijani: fəsih
  • Persian: فصیح‎ (fasih)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: فصیح‎‎
  • → Indonesian: fasih
  • → Malay: fasih
  • → Swahili: fasihi

References
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “فصيح”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), “فصح”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

See also
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