عصب

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.sˤa.ba/

عَصَبَ • (ʕaṣaba) I (non-past يَعْصِبُ (yaʕṣibu), verbal noun عَصْب (ʕaṣb))

1. to twist, wrap around
2. to fold tightly
3. to bound or bind, to tie
4. to castrate via a band around testicles
5. to bandage
6. to draw people together, to assemble
7. to surround, to encompass
   1. to include, to hold or reckon together, such as the entirety of one's relations, to be of the same identity
8. to obligate, to bind responsibility or consequences to; especially with phrases like بِ (bi) + رَأْس (raʔs, “head”)

• IPA^(key): /ʕasˤ.sˤa.ba/

عَصَّبَ • (ʕaṣṣaba) II (non-past يُعَصِّبُ (yuʕaṣṣibu), verbal noun تَعْصِيب (taʕṣīb))

1. to cause a thing to be twisted, or wrapped around
2. to swaddle, to cause a thing to be tightly folded around
3. to bandage, to tourniquet
4. to turban, to wrap one's brow with a band
   1. to crown, to declare or cause one to be a chief

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عَصَب • (ʕaṣab) m (plural أَعْصَاب (ʔaʕṣāb))

1. nerve
2. sinew, tendon
3. muscle
4. band, ribbon, scarf
5. chieftain
6. (in the plural) grandees
7. (in the plural) somewhat distant relations
8. bindweed (Convolvulus)

• → Azerbaijani: əsəb
• → Persian: عصب
• → Ottoman Turkish: عصب (asab)
  • → Turkish: asap
• → Uzbek: asab

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

From Arabic عَصَّبَ (ʕaṣṣaba).

• IPA^(key): /ʕasˤ.sˤab/

عَصَّب • (ʕaṣṣab) II (non-past يِعَصِّب (yiʕaṣṣib))

1. to get angry

Borrowed from Arabic عَصَب (ʕaṣab, “nerve, tendon”).

عصب • (ʿasab)

1. (physiology) nerve, a bundle of neurons that transmits electrical impulses all over the body

   Synonym: سڭیر (siñir)

2. tendon, sinew, a fibrous collagen tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment

   Synonyms: پی (pey), سڭیر (siñir), طنب (tunub), كرش (kiriş)

• عصبی (ʿasabi, “nervous”)

• Turkish: asap

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “asab1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 308
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “asab”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[2] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 51
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “عصب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 848
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Nervus”, 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 1134
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “عصب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 3274
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عصب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1303

Borrowed from Arabic عَصَب (ʕaṣab).

عصب • ('asab) (plural اعصاب (a'sâb))

1. nerve

   Synonym: پی (pey)

• عصبی ('asabi)
  • عصبیت ('asabiyyat)
• عصبانی ('asabâni)
  • عصبانیت ('asabâniyyat)
• عصب‌شناسی ('asab shenâsi)

From Arabic عَصَب (ʕaṣab).

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.sˤab/, [ˈʕɑ.sˤɑb]

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عصب • (ʕaṣab) m (plural أعصاب (ʔaʕṣāb))

1. nerve

   إمسك أعصابك. ― ʔimsek ʔaʕṣābak ― Don't get upset. (literally, “Hold your nerves.”)

From Arabic عَصَّبَ (ʕaṣṣaba).

• IPA^(key): /ʕasˤ.sˤab/, [ˈʕɑsˤ.sˤɑb]

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عصّب • (ʕaṣṣab) II (present بعصّب (biʕaṣṣeb))

1. to bandage
2. to get angry

   Synonyms: زعل (ziʕil), حمق (ḥimiʔ)