# أسد
## Arabic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔa.sad/

### Etymology 1

Unknown. Dubious relation to عَنْبَس (ʕanbas, “lion”), Ge'ez ዐንበሳ (ʿänbäsa, “lion”), عَبَّاس (ʕabbās, “lion”) which are explained by عَبَسَ (ʕabasa, “to scowl”).

#### Noun

أَسَد • (ʔasad) m (plural أُسُود (ʔusūd) or أُسُد (ʔusud) or أُسْد (ʔusd) or آسَاد (ʔāsād), feminine لَبُؤَة (labuʔa))
* lion
* (definite) Leo (astronomy)

##### Synonyms

* See Thesaurus:أسد

##### Hypernyms

* سَبُع (sabuʕ)

##### Derived terms

* دَاء الأَسَد (dāʔ al-ʔasad)
* الأَسَد (al-ʔasad)
* أَسَد البَحْر (ʔasad al-baḥr)
* اِسْتَأْسَدَ (istaʔsada)

##### Related terms

* مَأْسَدَة (maʔsada)

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

أَسَدَّ • (ʔasadda) IV (non-past يُسِدُّ (yusiddu), verbal noun إِسْدَاد (ʔisdād))
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##### Conjugation
#### Adjective

أَسَدّ • (ʔasadd)
* elative degree of سَدِيد (sadīd)

##### Declension
### Etymology 3
#### Verb

أسد (form I)
* أَسُدُّ (ʔasuddu) /ʔa.sud.du/: first-person singular non-past active indicative of سَدَّ (sadda)
* أُسَدُّ (ʔusaddu) /ʔu.sad.du/: first-person singular non-past passive indicative of سَدَّ (sadda)
* أَسُدَّ (ʔasudda) /ʔa.sud.da/: first-person singular non-past active subjunctive/jussive of سَدَّ (sadda)
* أُسَدَّ (ʔusadda) /ʔu.sad.da/: first-person singular non-past passive subjunctive/jussive of سَدَّ (sadda)
* أَسُدِّ (ʔasuddi) /ʔa.sud.di/: first-person singular non-past active jussive of سَدَّ (sadda)
* أُسَدِّ (ʔusaddi) /ʔu.sad.di/: first-person singular non-past passive jussive of سَدَّ (sadda)
* أَسِدُّ (ʔasiddu) /ʔa.sid.du/: first-person singular non-past active indicative of سَدَّ (sadda)
* أَسِدَّ (ʔasidda) /ʔa.sid.da/: first-person singular non-past active subjunctive/jussive of سَدَّ (sadda)
* أَسِدِّ (ʔasiddi) /ʔa.sid.di/: first-person singular non-past active jussive of سَدَّ (sadda)

### References

* Hommel, Fritz (1879) Die Namen der Säugethiere bei den südsemitischen Völkern als Beiträge zur arabischen und äthiopischen Lexicographie, zur semitischen Kulturforschung und Sprachvergleichung und zur Geschichte der Mittelmeerfauna. Mit steter Berücksichtigung auch der assyrischen und hebräischen Thiernamen und geographischen und literaturgeschichtlichen Excursen‎ (in German), Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, page 293
* Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 64
* Nöldeke, Theodor (1904) Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎ (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 77
* Kogan, Leonid (2011) “Proto-Semitic Lexicon”, in Weninger, Stefan, editor, The Semitic Languages. An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft – Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science; 36), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 208

## Egyptian Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic أَسَد (ʔasad).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔa.sad/, [ˈʔæsæd]

### Noun

أسد • (ʔasad) m (plural أسود (ʔusūd) or أسدة (ʔusúda))
* lion
    Synonym: سبع (sabʕ)
* (astrology) Leo

#### References

* Spiro, Socrates (1895). An Arabic-English vocabulary of the colloquial Arabic of Egypt, containing the vernacular idioms and expressions, slang phrases, etc., etc., used by the native Egyptians Cairo: Al-Mokattam Printing Office.
* Hinds, Martin; Badawi, El-Said (1986). A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic Beirut: Librairie du Liban.

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Arabic أَسَد (ʔasad).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔa.sad/, [ˈʔa.sad]
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### Noun

أسد • (ʔasad) m (plural أسود (ʔusūd))
* lion
* (astrology) Leo

#### See also

Signs of the Zodiac · الأبراج (il-ʔabrāj) :
| الحمل (il-ḥamal, “Aries”) | التور (it-tōr, “Taurus”) | الجوزاء (il-jōzāʔ, “Gemini”) | السرطان (is-saraṭān, “Cancer”) |
| الأسد (il-ʔasad, “Leo”) | العذراء (il-ʕazrāʔ, “Virgo”) | الميزان (il-mīzān, “Libra”) | العقرب (il-ʕaqrab, “Scorpio”) |
| القوس (il-ʔōs, “Sagittarius”) | الجدي (il-jidi, “Capricorn”) | الدلو (id-dalu, “Aquarius”) | الحوت (il-ḥūt, “Pisces”) |