Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أَيِسٌ

Root: ايس

Full Definition

أَيِسٌ and آيِسٌ [Despairing]; part. ns. of أَيِسَ.
2 [Hence,] آيِسَةٌ [and accord. to Golius , both properly meaning Despairing of the recurrence of the menstrual flux;] who has not menstruated in a period of five and fifty years.


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