ج س س

ج س س • (j-s-s)

1. related to palpation

• Form I: جَسَّ (jassa, “to palpate”)
  • Verbal noun: جَسّ (jass), مَجَسَّة (majassa)
  • Active participle: جَاسّ (jāss)
  • Passive participle: مَجْسُوس (majsūs)
• Form V: تَجَسَّسَ (tajassasa, “to scrutinize”)
  • Verbal noun: تَجَسُّس (tajassus)
  • Active participle: مُتَجَسِّس (mutajassis)
  • Passive participle: مُتَجَسَّس (mutajassas)
• Form VIII: اِجْتَسَّ (ijtassa, “to palpate”)
  • Verbal noun: اِجْتِسَاس (ijtisās)
  • Active participle: مُجْتَسّ (mujtass)
  • Passive participle: مُجْتَسّ (mujtass)

• مَجَسّ (majass, “place of touching”)
• مَجَسَّة (majassa, “place of touching”)
• مِجَسّ (mijass, “sensor, probe”)
• مِجَسَّة (mijassa, “tactile organ”)

• جَاسُوس (jāsūs, “spy”); pl. جَوَاسِيس (jawāsīs)
• جَاسَ (jāsa), اِجْتَاسَّ (ijtāssa, “to explore, to look through, to seek for what is in”)
• جَوَّاس (jawwās, “one who treads upon everything”)

• Eilers, Wilhelm (1962) “Iranisches Lehngut im arabischen Lexikon”, in Indo-Iranian Journal (in German), volume 5, number 3, pages 210–211
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ج س س”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 277
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ج س س”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 422–423