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أسّى

Root: اسو

Form: 2

Full Definition

أسّىII : see 1.

def.2 أسّاهُ, Verbal.Noun تَأْسِيَةٌ, i. q. عَزَّاهُ [He exhorted him, or enjoined him, to be patient; to take patience; or to take example by, or console himself by the example of, him who had suffered the like affliction]; saying to him, Wherefore dost thou grieve, or mourn, when such a one is thine example (إِسْوَتُكَ) ? i. e. what has befallen thee befell him, and he was patient; therefore take thou example by him and so be consoled (تَأَسِّ بِهِ). You say, أسّاهُ بِمُصِيبَةٍ i. e. عَزَّاهُ [He exhorted him, or enjoined him, to be patient, &c., by mentioning an affliction that had befallen another; unless بمصيتة be a mistranscription for لِمُصِيبَةٍ on account of an affliction]; as also آساهُ , with medd.
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