دسى

دَسَّى • (dassā)

1. rhyme form of دَسَّ (dassa, “to hide, to stockpile”)
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 91:9-10:

     قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَنْ زَكَّىٰهَا / وَقَدْ خَابَ مَن دَسَّىٰهَا

     qad ʔaflaḥa man zakkāhā / waqad ḵāba man dassāhā

     He has succeeded who gives charity, / And he has failed who hoards it

Due to the indistinct context, this verb has led to wild interpretation vagaries, not being recognized as the lengthening allowed by Arabic rhyming rules at hemistich ends and hence listed in reference works as a separate lexical item with ghost meanings. In this embarrassment, the vague reproached behaviour could be glossed as “to corrupt, to lead into transgression” to play safe, or “to stunt” as the opposite of the foreign زَكَّى (zakkā) which was misunderstood as a causative “to cause to grow” to native زَكِيَ (zakiya, “to thrive”).

• Schulthess, Friedrich (1912) “Zu Sūra 91 _{9. 10·}”, in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete‎^[1] (in German), volume 26, pages 148–157