Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أَسْوَانُ

Root: اسو

Full Definition

أَسْوَانُ Grieving, mourning, or sorrowful; as also أَسْيَانُ and أَسٍ , (M in art. اسى,) or آسٍ (K in art. اسى [to which alone the first of these three belongs, but the second and third may be regarded as belonging either to that art. or to the present,]) or أَسِىٌّ [See art. اسى] It is [sometimes] followed by أَتْوَانُ [as an imitative sequent corroborating its meaning].


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