عدسة

Singulative noun of عَدَس (ʕadas).

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.da.sa/

عَدَسَة • (ʕadasa) f (singulative, collective عَدَس m (ʕadas))

1. lentil

عَدَسَة • (ʕadasa) f (plural عَدَسَات (ʕadasāt))

1. lens, magnifying glass

• → Azerbaijani: ədəsə
• → Ottoman Turkish: عدسه (adese)
  • → Turkish: adese

• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “عدسة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1972.
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “عدسة”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen, page 676
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “عدسة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 696

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.da.se/, [ˈʕa.da.se]
• IPA^(key): /ʕa.da.sa/, [ˈʕa.da.sa]

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From Arabic عَدَسَة (ʕadasa).

عدسة • (ʕadase) f (singulative, collective عدس m (ʕadas))

1. lentil

Learned borrowing from Arabic عَدَسَة (ʕadasa)

عدسة • (ʕadase) f (plural عدسات (ʕadasāt))

1. lens
2. contact lens

   عدسة لاصقة ― ʕadase lāṣiqa ― contact lens (literally, “sticking lens”)

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