واسط

Arabic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /waː.sitˤ/

Adjective

وَاسِط • (wāsiṭ) (feminine وَاسِطَة (wāsiṭa), masculine plural وَاسِطُونَ (wāsiṭūna), feminine plural وَاسِطَات (wāsiṭāt))

  1. active participle of وَسَطَ (wasaṭa)

Declension

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: vasit
  • Ottoman Turkish: واسط (vasıt)
  • Persian: واسط (vâset)
  • Urdu: واسِط (vāsit)

Proper noun

وَاسِط • (wāsiṭ) f

  1. Wasit (a city in Iraq).
  2. Wasit (a governorate of Iraq).

Derived terms

Descendants

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَاسِط (wāsiṭ).

Adjective

واسط • (vasıt)

  1. middle; central; intermediary

Proper noun

واسط • (vasıt)

  1. Wasit (a city in Iraq)
  • واسطی (vasıtî)

Descendants

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَاسِط (wāsiṭ).

Pronunciation

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  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [wɑː.sɪt̪]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [wɑː.sɪt̪]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [wɔː.sit̪]

Readings
Classical reading? wāsit
Dari reading? wāsit
Iranian reading? vâset
Tajik reading? vosit

Noun

Dari واسط
Iranian Persian
Tajik восит

واسط • (vâset)

  1. the middle
  2. a mediator
  3. a brideman, marriage-broker, match-maker
  4. the fore-part of a camel's saddle

Proper noun

Dari واسط
Iranian Persian
Tajik Восит

واسط • (vâset)

  1. Wasit (a city in Iraq).
  2. Wasit (a governorate of Iraq).
  • واسطی (vâseti)

Further reading

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَاسِط (wāsiṭ).

Pronunciation

Noun

واسِط • (vāsit) m (Hindi spelling वासित)

  1. the middle
  2. a mediator
  3. a go-between; middle-man; match-maker

Proper noun

واسِط • (vāsit) m (Hindi spelling वासित)

  1. Wasit (a city in Iraq).
  2. Wasit (a governorate of Iraq).
  • واسِطی (vāsitī)

Further reading

  • واسط”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “واسط”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • واسط”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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