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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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ʕaṣabī عَصَبِيّ 
ID 588 • Sw – • BP 2335 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ʕṢB 
adj. 
1 sinewy, nerved, nervy; 2 nervous, neural, nerve‑, neuro‑, neur‑ (in compounds); 3 nervous, high-strung – WehrCowan1976.
 
▪ nisba formation, from ↗ʕaṣab ʻnerves’, from protSem *ʕa(n)ṣab‑ ~ *ʕa(n)c̣ab‑ ‘sinew, nerves’ (Militarev&Kogan2000).
▪ [v2] : modern neologism – cf. Monteil1960: 123 (on ↗ʕaṣabiyyaẗ in the modern sense of ʻnervosity’).
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► ʕaṣabiyyu ’l-mazāǧ, adj., nervous, high-strung
► al-ǧihāz al‑ʕaṣabī, n., the nervous system
► ḥālaẗ ʕaṣabiyyaẗ, n.f., nervousness, nervosity
► al-ḍuʕf al‑ʕaṣabī, n., neurasthenia

► ʕaṣabiyyaẗ, n.f., 1 nervousness, nervosity; – 2 ↗s.v.: abstract formation in ‑iyyaẗ; in the meaning ʻnervousness, nervosity’ a neologism (see Monteil1960: 123).

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗ʕaṣaba, ↗ʕaṣab, ↗ʕaṣīb, ↗ʕiṣābaẗ, ↗taʕaṣṣub, ↗ĭʕtiṣāb, as well as, for the general picture, ↗√ʕṢB.
 
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