حدس

Blend of حَدَّ (ḥadda) with uncertain second element, Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou suggests أَسَاس (ʔasās, “foundation”), another intuition opts instead for حَسَّ (ḥassa, “to feel”). In the same fashion, following Lane’s comparisons, هَجَسَ (hajasa, “to come to mind, to occur”) is apparently from هَجَّ (hajja), whereas in view of عَدَسَ (ʕadasa, “to journey through; to tread hard”) (both verbs like the present with ḍamma and kasra in the non-past) these two senses perhaps instead relate to دَاسَ (dāsa, “to tread”).

حَدَسَ • (ḥadasa) I, non-past يَحْدِسُ or يَحْدُسُ‎ (yaḥdisu or yaḥdusu)

1. to conjecture, to ween, to intuit, to foreknow
2. (obsolete) to spring to mind, to occur
3. (obsolete) to roam without direction, to journey without guidance
4. (obsolete) to rush, to hurry through
5. (obsolete) to tread down
6. (obsolete) to shoot, to cast, to throw
7. (obsolete) to aim at, to intend

حَدْس • (ḥads) m

1. conjecture, weening, intuition, foreknowledge
2. (philosophy) conjecture

• 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 321
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “حدس”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 355
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “حدس”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 531
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “حدس”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 267b
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2020) “حدس”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 6th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 177b

Arabic حَدْس (ḥads)

حدس • (hads)

1. guess, assumption, estimate