مُسِيء faulty in Arabic
مُسِيء is how you say “faulty” in Arabic.
Root س ي أ s-y-ʾ. noun/adjective (active participle). musīʾ.
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Meaning of faulty in Arabic
- faulty, at fault as recorded in the source gloss
Example sentence
ونكتة الْمَسْأَلَة أَنَّهُ لَا يرى ربه إِلَّا محسنا، وَلَا يرى نَفسه إِلَّا مسيئا
And the essence of the matter is that he sees his Lord as nothing but good, and himself as nothing but wrong.
مُسِيئًا faulty
musi means 'doing wrong, at fault'; the '-an' ending marks the state described ('sees himself only as doing wrong').
The English is machine-translated.
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How it is used
Lane's entry for this root is built almost entirely around a she-camel's سَىْء — the milk that descends, or is drawn forth, before the full flow. The look-alike adjective سَيِّئ ('bad, evil'), which this word's stem resembles, is explicitly cross-referenced by Lane to a separate root article (س و أ), so its senses are not part of this root's family.
Words from the same root
- سيّأ to draw forth a she-camel's sayʾ-milk
- تَسَيَّأَ (of a she-camel) to emit her milk without its being drawn forth; also to yield only a little, or, of affairs, to become confused and discordant
- انسيأ (of milk) to issue forth without being drawn out
- سَىْءٌ the milk in the fore part of the udder, descending before the full flow
- سِىْءٌ variant form of sayʾ
Common questions
- How do you say "faulty" in Arabic?
- مُسِيء (musīʾ).
- What does the root س-ي-أ mean in Lane's Lexicon?
- It centers on a she-camel's sayʾ-milk — the milk that descends, or is drawn forth, before the full flow — with related verb forms describing milking it out or its flowing by itself.
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).