faṣīḥ فَصِيح , pl. fuṣaḥāʔᵘ , fiṣāḥ , fuṣuḥ
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√FṢḤ
1 pure, good Arabic (language), literary; 2 skillful in using the correct literary language; 3 clear, plain, distinct, intelligible (language, speech); 4 fluent, eloquent – WehrCowan1979.
▪ Morphologically a FaʕīL adj. denoting the intense presence of a quality in s.th., the word probably is ultimately from the now obsolete †fiṣḥ ‘milk divested of the froth’ or †faṣḥ ‘breaking of the dawn light’, see ↗faṣuḥa and, for the whole picture, ↗FṢḤ.
▪ Tu fasih: 1330 ʕĀşıḳ Paşa, Ġarīb-nāme : ten dili vü cān dili eytdi faṣīḥ – Nişanyan22Apr2015.
► faṣṣaḥa, vb. II, to bring (the language) into literary form, make (the language) correct Arabic, purify (the language): D-stem, caus., denom. from faṣīḥ or ↗faṣāḥaẗ.
► ʔafṣaḥa, vb. IV, 1 to express o.s. in flawless literary Arabic; 2 to speak clearly, distinctly, intelligibly; 3 to give expression (ʕan to), express, state clearly, declare outright, make plain, speak openly, frankly (ʕan about); 4 to orient, inform (li‑ s.o. ʕan about); 5 to become clear, plain, distinct: denom., from faṣīḥ or ↗faṣāḥaẗ. — 6 ↗fiṣḥ.
► ʔafṣaḥᵘ, f. fuṣḥà, adj., 1 of purer language; 2 more eloquent: elat. | (al-ʕarabiyyaẗ, al-luġaẗ) al-fuṣḥà, adj./n. f., classical Arabic.
► ʔifṣāḥ, n., 1 flawless literary Arabic style; 2 frank statement, open word (ʕan about), open declaration: vn. IV.
► mufṣiḥ, adj., 1 clear, plain, distinct, intelligible; 2 cloudless, sunny, bright (day): PA IV; [v2] shows the closest affinity to what may be the etymon proper, namely †faṣaḥa, a (faṣḥ), ‘to appear in all its splendour (dawn)’.
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