Arabic vocabulary
مُسِيءfaulty in Arabic
مُسِيء is how you say “faulty” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Root س ي أ (s-y-ʾ)noun/adjective (active participle)Pronounced musīʾ
Meaning of faulty in Arabic
- faulty, at fault — as recorded in the source gloss
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
- سيّأto 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
- سَىْءٌthe milk in the fore part of the udder, descending before the full flow
- سِىْءٌvariant 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.
Definitions synthesised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).
Example sentences
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').
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