عيش

• IPA^(key): /ʕajʃ/

عَيْش • (ʕayš) m

1. verbal noun of عَاشَ (ʕāša) (form I)
2. living, life

• Maltese: għajxa
• → Classical Persian: عَیْش (ayš)
  • → Bengali: আয়েশ (aẏeś)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: ऐश (aiś)

    Urdu: عیش (aiś)

• IPA^(key): /ʕaj.ja.ʃa/

عَيَّشَ • (ʕayyaša) II (non-past يُعَيِّشُ (yuʕayyišu), verbal noun تَعْيِيش (taʕyīš))

1. to keep alive
2. to support (financially)

• Maltese: għajjex

From Arabic عَيْش (ʕayš, “living”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔeːʃ/

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عيش • (ʔēš) m

1. cooked flour ball

• Heath, Judith, Mahadi, Mahamat Zene (2021) Lexique Arabe Tchadien-Français‎^[1] (in French), 11th edition, N'Djamena, Chad: SIL Chad, page 43
• Pommerol, Patrice Jullien de (1999) Dictionnaire Arabe Tchadien-Français (in French), Éditions Karthala, →ISBN, page 407

Inherited from Arabic عَيْش (ʕayš, “living”). The change in meaning is most likely due to high reliance on bread for nutrition, and thus staying alive.

• IPA^(key): /ʕeːʃ/, [ʕeːʃ]

عيش • (ʕēš) m

1. bread

• IPA^(key): /ʕiːʃ/, [ʕiːʃ]

عيش • (ʕīš)

1. masculine singular imperative of عاش (ʕāš, “to live”)

From Arabic عَيْش (ʕayš).

• (Kuwait) IPA^(key): /ʕeːʃ/

عيش • (ʕēš) m (collective, singulative عيشة f (ʕēša), plural عْيوش (ʕyūš))

1. rice

From Arabic عَيَّشَ (ʕayyaša).

• (Kuwait) IPA^(key): /ʕəj.jəʃ/

عيش • (ʕayyaš) II

1. to cause to live

• (Kuwait) IPA^(key): /ʕiːʃ/

عيش • (ʕīš)

1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of عاش (ʕāš)

From Arabic عَيْش (ʕayš).

• IPA^(key): /ʕeːʃ/, [ʕe̞ːʃ]

عيش • (ʕēš) m (collective, singulative عيشة f (ʕēša))

1. bread

   Synonym: خبز (ḵubuz)

From Arabic عَيَّشَ (ʕayyaša).

• IPA^(key): /ʕaj.jaʃ/

عيش • (ʕayyaš) II (non-past يِعَيِّش (yiʕayyiš))

1. to cause to live

• IPA^(key): /ʕiːʃ/

عيش • (ʕīš)

1. second-person masculine singular imperative of عاش (ʕāš)