آسیب

From Proto-Iranian *ā- + *saima- (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skeh₂i-), perhaps borrowed from a prefixed form of Sogdian 𐼼𐼷𐼺‎ (sym /⁠sēm⁠/, “confused, trouble”) with final denasalization; cf. Classical Persian آسیمه‎ (āsēma, “confused”).[1] Compare Ancient Greek σκαιός (skaiós, “left-hand, clumsy, unlucky”), Latin scaevus (“left-hand, clumsy, unlucky”), Proto-Germanic *skaibaz (“slant, not straight”).

First attested in Unsuri, early eleventh century.

آسیب • (âsib)

1. injury, wound

   ‏من از این رابطه آسیب دیدم.‎‎

   man az in râbete âsib didam.

   I was scarred by this relationship.

   (literally, “I saw wounds from this relationship.”)

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی‎ [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 2736:

     ‏سالم از دزدان و از آسیب سنگ
     برد تا دار الخلافه بی‌‌درنگ‌‌‎

     salīm az duzdān u az āsēb-i sang
     burd tā dār al-xalāfa bē dirang

     He bore it without delay, safe from robbers and unhurt by stones, to the seat of the Caliphate.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

2. damage, loss

Borrowed from Classical Persian آسیب‎ (āsēb).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑː.seːb/
• Rhymes: -eːb

آسیب • (āseb) m (Hindi spelling आसेब)

1. evil spirit, demon, apparition

   Synonyms: پریت‎ (parīt), جِن‎ (jin)

2. ill-fortune, calamity
3. illness, madness
4. trouble, pain, shock

   Synonym: تکلیف‎ (taklīf)

• آسیب زدہ‎ (āseb-zadā, “possessed by an evil spirit, stricken by ill-fortune, afflicted by madness”)
• آسیبِ جاں‎ (āseb-e-jā̃, “harm, injury, fear of life”)
• آسیب پہنچانا‎ (āseb pahõcānā, “to trouble, to cause pain, to shock or traumatize”)
• آسیب لگنا‎ (āseb lagnā)

• “آسیب”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.