يأس

Verbal noun of يَئِسَ (yaʔisa, “to despair”).

• IPA^(key): /jaʔs/

يَأْس • (yaʔs) m

1. verbal noun of يَئِسَ (yaʔisa, “to despair”) (form I)
2. despair

   لَا يَأْسَ مَعَ ٱلْحَيَاةِ

   lā yaʔsa maʕa l-ḥayāti

   while there's life, there's hope

   (literally, “there's no despair with life”)

• سِنُّ الْيَأْسِ (sinnu l-yaʔsi)

• Maltese: jies
• → Persian: یاس (yâs)
• → Turkish: yeis

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