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Highlights
Present tense
يَخْسَرُ
Verbal nouns
Active participle
خَاسِر
Passive participle
مَخْسُور
Most common words from the same root
خَسِرَ in English
Verb · Form I
- to lose
- to be deceived, beguiled, cheated, circumvented
- to err, go astray, deviate from the right way, to become lost
- to perish, die
Word origin
Possibly related to Hebrew חסר (khasér, “absent, missing”) or Egyptian ḫsr (“to dispel, to drive away”).
Words from the root خ-س-ر
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خَسِرَ
· present يَخْسَرُ
Form I · The plain action
to lose; to be deceived, beguiled, cheated, circumvented; to err, go astray, deviate from the right way, to become lost
خُسْرَان
خُسْر
خُسُر
خَسْر
خَسَر
خَسَار
خَاسِر
خَسِر
مَخْسُور
خَسْرَان
losing
خَسَرَ
· present يَخْسِرُ
Form I · The plain action
to make defective or deficient; to make (someone) lose; to make (someone) err, go astray, to make (someone) become lost
خَسْر
خُسْرَان
خَاسِر
مَخْسُور
خَسَّرَ
· present يُخَسِّرُ
Form II · Causative or intensive
to destroy, to make perish, to mar, to scathe; to put afar, to alienate, to estrange, to remove; to attribute error to, to claim to have gone astray, to impute loss to
تَخْسِير
مُخَسِّر
مُخَسَّر
اِسْتِخْسَار
خَسِرَ conjugation
Active voice. Present, subjunctive and jussive are the three moods of the non-past.
| Pronoun | Past | Present | Subjunctive | Jussive | Imperative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| أَنَا I | خَسِرْتُ | أَخْسَرُ | أَخْسَرَ | أَخْسَرْ | — |
| أَنْتَ you (m.) | خَسِرْتَ | تَخْسَرُ | تَخْسَرَ | تَخْسَرْ | اِخْسَرْ |
| أَنْتِ you (f.) | خَسِرْتِ | تَخْسَرِينَ | تَخْسَرِي | تَخْسَرِي | اِخْسَرِي |
| هُوَ he | خَسِرَ | يَخْسَرُ | يَخْسَرَ | يَخْسَرْ | — |
| هِيَ she | خَسِرَتْ | تَخْسَرُ | تَخْسَرَ | تَخْسَرْ | — |
| أَنْتُمَا you two | خَسِرْتُمَا | تَخْسَرَانِ | تَخْسَرَا | تَخْسَرَا | اِخْسَرَا |
| هُمَا they two (m.) | خَسِرَا | يَخْسَرَانِ | يَخْسَرَا | يَخْسَرَا | — |
| هُمَا they two (f.) | خَسِرَتَا | تَخْسَرَانِ | تَخْسَرَا | تَخْسَرَا | — |
| نَحْنُ we | خَسِرْنَا | نَخْسَرُ | نَخْسَرَ | نَخْسَرْ | — |
| أَنْتُمْ you all (m.) | خَسِرْتُمْ | تَخْسَرُونَ | تَخْسَرُوا | تَخْسَرُوا | اِخْسَرُوا |
| أَنْتُنَّ you all (f.) | خَسِرْتُنَّ | تَخْسَرْنَ | تَخْسَرْنَ | تَخْسَرْنَ | اِخْسَرْنَ |
| هُمْ they (m.) | خَسِرُوا | يَخْسَرُونَ | يَخْسَرُوا | يَخْسَرُوا | — |
| هُنَّ they (f.) | خَسِرْنَ | يَخْسَرْنَ | يَخْسَرْنَ | يَخْسَرْنَ | — |
| Verbal noun | خُسْرَان، خُسْر، خَسَارَة، خُسُر، خَسْر، خَسَر، خَسَار |
|---|---|
| Active participle | خَاسِر، خَسِر |
| Passive participle | مَخْسُور |
خَسِرَ in a sentence
From a fully vowelled text
لأَنَّهُ مَاذَا يَنْتَفِعُ الإِنْسَانُ لَوْ رَبِحَ الْعَالَمَ كُلَّهُ وَخَسِرَ نَفْسَهُ؟For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?Mark 8:36, Smith & Van Dyke (1865) / KJV
لأَنَّهُ مَاذَا يَنْتَفِعُ الإِنْسَانُ لَوْ رَبحَ الْعَالَمَ كُلَّهُ، وَأَهْلَكَ نَفْسَهُ أَوْ خَسِرَهَا؟For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?Luke 9:25, Smith & Van Dyke (1865) / KJV
لأَنَّهُ مَاذَا يَنْتَفِعُ الإِنْسَانُ لَوْ رَبحَ الْعَالَمَ كُلَّهُ وَخَسِرَ نَفْسَهُ؟ أَوْ مَاذَا يُعْطِي الإِنْسَانُ فِدَاءً عَنْ نَفْسِهِ؟For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?Matthew 16:26, Smith & Van Dyke (1865) / KJV
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