عصا

From Proto-Semitic *ʕiṣ́-. Cognate with Hebrew עֵץ (ʿēṣ).

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.sˤan/
• IPA^(key): /ʕa.sˤaː/
  • Homophone: عَصَى (ʕaṣā)

عَصًا • (ʕaṣan) f (construct state عَصَا (ʕaṣā), dual عَصَوَانِ (ʕaṣawāni), plural عُصِيّ (ʕuṣiyy) or عِصِيّ (ʕiṣiyy) or أَعْصٍ (ʔaʕṣin) or أَعْصَاء (ʔaʕṣāʔ) or عَصَوَات (ʕaṣawāt))

1. staff, stick
2. walking cane
3. punishment, chastisement
4. wooden handle
5. scepter
6. crosier
7. dominion
8. penis
9. lingual bone, tongue
10. Muslim fraternity or a community in general

• Maltese: għasa
• Moroccan Arabic: عصا (ʕṣā)
• ⇒ Gulf Arabic: عصاية (ʕaṣāya)
• ⇒ Hijazi Arabic: عصاية (ʕaṣāya)
• → Armenian: ասա (asa)

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.sˤaː/
  • Homophone: عَصَى (ʕaṣā)

عَصَا • (ʕaṣā) I (non-past يَعْصُو (yaʕṣū), verbal noun عَصْو (ʕaṣw))

1. to beat or strike with a stick, sword, or staff; to use, handle, wield, equip any of the above.
2. to dress wound, to use a splint on a wound
3. to unite people for a purpose, to shepherd people together

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “عصا”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen

عصا (esā)

1. cane

Borrowed from Arabic عَصًا (ʕaṣan, “staff, stick”), itself from Proto-Semitic *ʕiṣ́-.

عصا • (ʼasa)

1. stick, wand, cane, staff, an elongated piece of wood, typically put to some use

   Synonyms: آغاج (ağac), دكنك (değenek)

2. sceptre, an ornamental staff held by a ruling monarch as a symbol of power

• Turkish: asa
• → Armenian: ասա (asa)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “asa2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 307
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “asâ”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[2] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 51
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “عصا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 848
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Baculus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[4], Vienna, column 112
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “عصا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 3272
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عصا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1302

Borrowed from Arabic عَصًا (ʕaṣan, “stick”)

عصا • ('asâ) (plural عصا‌ها ('asâ-hâ))

1. stick, rod, staff
2. scepter
   1. (by extension) guide
      • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3920:

        تو عصا کش هر که را که زندگی است
        بی‌‌عصا و بی‌‌عصا کش کور چیست

        tū 'asā kaš har ki rā ki zandigī-st
        bē-'asa u bē-'asa kaš kūr čīst

        Thou art the Guide of every one that hath life:
        what is the blind man without staff and guide?

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “عصا”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim