وسط

From the root و س ط‎ (w-s-ṭ). Compare Classical Syriac ܝܫܛܐ‎ (yašṭā, “esophagus, throat”) and Ge'ez ውሳጤ (wəsaṭe, “inside, interior”).

• IPA^(key): /wa.satˤ/
• IPA^(key): /wastˤ/

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وَسَط or وَسْط • (wasaṭ or wasṭ) m (plural أَوْسَاط‎ (ʔawsāṭ))

1. middle, center
2. waist
3. the golden mean
4. milieu, environment, surroundings, sphere
5. means, instrument, agent, medium
6. mediocrity, medium quality, average
7. (in the plural) circles, quarters, classes, strata (of population)

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وَسْطَ or وَسَطَ • (wasṭa or wasaṭa)

1. amidst, midst, at the center of, in the middle of, among, amongst

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• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “وسط”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “وسط”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /wa.sa.tˤa/

وَسَطَ • (wasaṭa) I, non-past يَسِطُ‎‎ (yasiṭu)

1. to be in the middle, to penetrate into the middle

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• Lane, Edward William (1863), “وسط”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “وسط”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

• IPA^(key): /was.sa.tˤa/

وَسَّطَ • (wassaṭa) II, non-past يُوَسِّطُ‎‎ (yuwassiṭu)

1. to place or put in the middle

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• Lane, Edward William (1863), “وسط”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “وسط”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

• IPA^(key): /wu.satˤ/

وُسَط • (wusaṭ) f pl

1. feminine plural of أَوْسَط‎ (ʔawsaṭ)

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وَسَط • (vasat)

1. middle, center

   Synonym: میان‎ (miyân)

   ‏وسط بهار‎ ― vasat-e bahâr ― middle of spring

   ‏در وسط اصفهان‎ ― dar vasat-e esfahân ― in the middle of Isfahan

2. (mathematics) average

• → Hindustani: vasat

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• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਵਸਤ (vasat)

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• Turkish: vasat (check ancestor whether Arabic or Persian)