عسى
Not in Hans Wehr
This word isn't in Hans Wehr — but it's in Lane's Lexicon
عسى doesn't appear in Hans Wehr's Modern Standard Arabic dictionary, but Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon has 2 entries for it, distinguished by diacritics. Select one below for the full classical Arabic definition.
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عَسَى Form 1
1 عَسَى ذ is [said by some to be] one of the verbs of appropinquation, implying eager desire, or hope, and fear, and not perfectly inflected, for it is applied in the form of the preterite to that which occurs in the pre…
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عَسِىٌّ
هُوَ عَسِىٌّ بِهِ ذ He is adapted or disposed by nature, apt, meet, suited, suitable, fitted, fit, competent, proper, or worthy, for it or of it; as also بِهِ: (K, TA:) but one should not say عَسًى. (TA.) [See also مَعْس…
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