الفصحى

Definite feminine form of the elative adjective أَفْصَح (ʔafṣaḥ, “purest in language, most eloquent”), derived from فَصِيح (faṣīḥ, “pure in language, eloquent”).

• IPA^(key): /al.fusˤ.ħaː/

الْفُصْحَى • (al-fuṣḥā) f

1. Fusha, standard Arabic language, Modern Standard Arabic, Classical Arabic

• اللُّغَة الْعَرَبِيَّة الْفُصْحَى (al-luḡa(t) al-ʕarabiyya(t) al-fuṣḥā)

• الْعَامِّيَّة (al-ʕāmmiyya)
• الدَّارِجَة (ad-dārija)
• لَهْجَة (lahja)

• English: Fusha
• Russian: фусха (fusxa)

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “فصح”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN