آس

• IPA^(key): /ʔaːs/

Borrowed from Aramaic אָסָא / ܐܵܣܵܐ (ʾāsā, “myrtle”), from Akkadian 𒄑𒊍 (asum, “myrtle”).

آس • (ʔās) m

2. myrtle (Myrtus gen. et spp.)

   Synonyms: رَيْحَان (rayḥān), مَرْسِين (marsīn), هَدَس (hadas), قُمَام (qumām)

   • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 2, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802^IA, Cap. 29, Art. 15, pages 383–384:

     والكتم قال أبو الخير هو ثلاثة أنواع منها ما له ورق عريض مثل ورق الآس الذي ينبت في الشعرى وهو يعلو كثيرا ويأخذ من التدويح وورقه مشرفة مثل تشريف المنشار ومنه نوع آخر له ورق دون الأول في العرض وتعظم شجرته أيضا وله حب في قدر حب الفلفل والريحان ويعتصر منه دهن يستصبح به ونوع آخر له ورق طويل دقيق مثل ورق المسان وقيل إن مما جرب فصح إنه إن سقى من عصارة ورقه ثمانية دراهم لمن عضه الكلب فإنه يبرئ في ذلك اليوم ويخلص بإذن الله تعالى وأن فزع من الماء فإنه يبرئ والكتم هو شبيه للحناء ويجفف ورقه ويدق نعما ويخلط بالحناء وخضب به الشعر.

     About the mock privet says Abū al-Ḵayr that there are three kinds of it: The first has wide leaves similar to the leaves of the myrtle which grows in the maquis and it becomes very high and swollen and its leaves are humped like a saw, the second has leaves of lesser width but its tree is also poddy and its seeds are of the size of the seeds of peppers and myrtles and from them one can press oil for lighting, and another kind has long delicate leaves like sandpaper and it is said if someone is affected by scabies then he will regain health, that if he whom a dog has bitten drinks eight dirhem from the extract of its leaves he will becomes free from the ailment the same day and cleansed of it if God is gracious; so that he will fear water but he will be free of the pest. Mock privet is similar to henna and one dries its leaves and crushes them well and mixes with henna and dyes the hair with it.

• ⇒ Cypriot Arabic: ximplás
• → Ge'ez: እልኣስ (ʾəlʾas, “myrtle”)
• → Middle Armenian: հապալաս (hapalas) (from حَبَّ ٱلْآس (ḥabba l-ʔās))
  • → Armenian: հապալաս (hapalas) (learned)

Ultimately from Latin as, likely through French as.

آس • (ʔās) m (plural آسَات (ʔāsāt))

2. ace (card games, dice games, etc.)

Borrowed from Aramaic אָסְיָא / ܐܵܣܝܵܐ (ʾāsyā, “physician, healer”), from Akkadian 𒀀𒍪 (A.ZU /⁠asû⁠/, “physician, healer”), from Sumerian 𒀀𒍪 (A.ZU /⁠azu⁠/, “physician, healer”). This term has merged with the native root ء س و (ʔ s w) having originally the meanings “to grieve”, “to hurt”, and developed additional forms, this noun being reinterpreted as an active participle of the form I verb, the same happening in Aramaic. It has also engendered additional forms in Aramaic, Hebrew, Ethiopian Semitic.

آسٍ • (ʔāsin) m (construct state آسِي (ʔāsī), plural آسُون (ʔāsūn) or أُسَاة (ʔusāh) or إِسَاء (ʔisāʔ), feminine آسِيَة (ʔāsiya)) (archaic)

2. physician, healer, one who knows medicine

   Synonym: طَبِيب (ṭabīb)

   • a. 965, Al-Mutanabbi, فِي الْخَدِّ أَنْ عَزَمَ الْخَلِيطُ رَحِيلًا (fī l-ḵaddi ʔan ʕazama l-ḵalīṭu raḥīlan):

     يَطَأُ الثَّرَى مُتَرَفِّقًا مِنْ تَيْهِهِ // فَكَأَنَّهُ آسٍ يَجُسُّ عَلِيلَا

     yaṭaʔu ṯ-ṯarā mutaraffiqan min tayhihi // fakaʔannahu ʔāsin yajussu ʕalīlā

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1948, مُحَمَّد مَهْدِيّ اَلْجَوَاهِرِيّ [muḥammad mahdiyy al-jawāhiriyy], “أَخِي جَعْفَر [ʔaḵī jaʕfar]”, in سَعِيد عَلِيّ [saʕīd ʕaliyy], compiler, دِيوَان الْجَوَاهِرِيّ [dīwān al-jawāhiriyy], part 1, Saida, Lebanon: اَلْمَكْتَبَة اَلْعَصْرِيَّة [al-maktaba(t) al-ʕaṣriyya], published October 1967, →OCLC, page 180:

     فَيَا لَكَ مِنْ مَرْهَمٍ مَا ٱهْتَدَى إِلَيْهِ الْأُسَاةُ وَمَا رَهَّمُوا

     fayā laka min marhamin mā htadā ʔilayhi l-ʔusātu wamā rahhamū

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886), Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 139
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886), Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 261

Inherited from Proto-Iranian *HáHtr̥š; see there for more.

آس • (ás)

1. fire
2. flame

• آچ (ác)

آس • (ās)

1. alternative form of اس (as, “horse”)

Inherited from Middle Persian *ʾs (/⁠*ās⁠/). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”); compare Avestan 𐬀𐬯𐬀𐬥 (asan, “stone”), Sanskrit अश्मन् (aśman, “stone”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

آس • (ās / âs) (Tajik spelling ос)

1. (Dari, dated in Iran) millstone

• آس کردن (ās kardan / âs kardan)
• آسیاب (āsiyāb / âsiyâb)
• آسباد (āsbād / âsbâd)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “آس”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

Borrowed from Urdu آس (ās).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /äːs/

آس • (ās) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਆਸ)

1. hope, expectation

2=ās

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “āśás”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 66

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “آس”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: عزیز پبلشرز [ʻazīz pabliśarz]
• Bashir, Kanwal (2012), “آس”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Hyattsville, MD: Dunwoody Press, page 5
• “ਆਸ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2026

آس (ass)

1. Arabic spelling of ass

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀆𑀲𑀸 (āsā), from Sanskrit आशा (āśā). Doublet of آشا (āśā).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑːs/

آس • (ās) f

1. hope, expectation

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਆਸ (āsa)

  Shahmukhi script: آس (ās)

• → Saraiki: آس (ās)

• “آس”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “آس”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 10