جسيم

Arabic

Root
ج س م (j-s-m)

Etymology 1

فَعِيل (faʕīl)-type stative-verb derived from the active participle from the verb جَسُمَ (jasuma, to be great, large).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒa.siːm/
  • Rhymes: -iːm

Adjective

جَسِيم • (jasīm) (feminine جَسِيمَة (jasīma), common plural جِسَام (jisām), elative أَجْسَم (ʔajsam))

  1. great, large, big, bulky
  2. vast
  3. corpulent
  4. important, difficult
  5. weighty, momentous
  6. highly esteemed
  7. grave (offense)
    • 2021, أَيْمَن أَبُو الرُّوس [ʔayman ʔabū ar-rūs], “فاجعة في نيويورك!!”, in أَخْطَاءٌ تَارِيخِيَّةٌ لَا تُغْتَفَرُ [ʔaḵṭāʔun tārīḵiyyatun lā tuḡtafaru, Unforgivable Historical Mistakes], Cairo, Egypt: الشاهد للنشر والتوزيع [Al-Shāhid for Publishing and Distribution], →ISBN, page 41:
      وَبِهٰذَا الْخَطَأِ الْجَسِيمِ الَّذِي ٱرْتَكَبَهُ الطَّيَّارُ مَاتَ كُلُّ رُكَّابِ طَائِرَتِهِ وَمُعْظَمُ رُكَّابِ الطَّائِرَةِ الْأُخْرَى.
      wabihāḏā l-ḵaṭaʔi al-jasīmi allaḏī rtakabahu ṭ-ṭayyāru māta kullu rukkābi ṭāʔiratihi wamuʕẓamu rukkābi ṭ-ṭāʔirati l-ʔuḵrā.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
References
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “جسيم”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “جسم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Etymology 2

Diminutive of جِسْم (jism, body).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒu.sajm/

Noun

جُسَيْم • (jusaym) m (plural جُسَيْمَات (jusaymāt))

  1. (physics) particle
  2. (biology) corpuscle
Declension
Antonyms
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