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و-س-ع

The Arabic root و-س-ع (w-s-a)

Form I verb وَسِعَ: to be wide

16 words in the dictionary are built from و-س-ع, including verbs in Forms I, II, IV, V, VIII. Each verb is listed with the nouns that come from it: its verbal noun (masdar), its participles, and words derived from it.

Most common

Adjective
large in area
Verb · Form VIII
اِتَّسَعَ
to get wider
Verb · Form II
وَسَّعَ
to expand
Noun
سَعَة
capacity
Verb · Form I
وَسِعَ
to be wide
Noun
مَوْسُوعَة
encyclopedia
Verb · Form I
وَسُعَ
to be wide
Noun
تَوْسِيع
making spacious

Verbs and the nouns that come from them

وَسِعَ · present يَسَعُ
Form I · The plain action

to be wide; to hold, to contain; to encompass, to extend

سَعَة
Verbal noun
capacity
سِعَة
Verbal noun
Active participle
large in area
مَوْسُوع
Passive participle
وَسُعَ · present يَوْسُعُ
Form I · The plain action

to be wide

وَسَاعَة
Verbal noun
وَسِيع
Active participle
wide
وَسَّعَ · present يُوَسِّعُ
Form II · Causative or intensive

to expand

تَوْسِيع
Verbal noun
making spacious
تَوْسِعَة
Verbal noun
development
مُوَسِّع
Active participle
مُوَسَّع
Passive participle
أَوْسَعَ · present يُوسِعُ
Form IV · Causative

to make wide, to broaden; to be rich; to become rich; to be profuse, to spread one’s copiosity

إِيسَاع
Verbal noun
مُوسِع
Active participle
مُوسَع
Passive participle
تَوَسَّعَ · present يَتَوَسَّعُ
Form V · Reflexive of Form II

to expand

تَوَسُّع
Verbal noun
مُتَوَسِّع
Active participle
اِتَّسَعَ · present يَتَّسِعُ
Form VIII · Reflexive, often idiomatic

to get wider, to expand, to dilate; to squeeze into, to fit, to accommodate or be accommodated, to be “big enough” or otherwise capable, to have room or disposition

اِتِّسَاع
Verbal noun
مُتَّسِع
Active participle
مُتَّسَع
Passive participle

Other nouns and adjectives

مَوْسُوعَة
Noun
encyclopedia
أَوْسَع
Adjective
elative degree of وَاسِع
وُسْع
Noun
ability
وُسْعَة
Noun
spaciousness
مُواسِع
Noun
capacitor

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