How to say "despair" in Arabic
CognateMeaningdespair
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
يَأْس
yaʾsיאס
يأس
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
ייאוש
ye'ushيِئُوش
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ي-أ-سHebrew root
י-א-שArabic yaʾisa, 'to despair', and Hebrew יֵאוּשׁ (Mishnaic, not Biblical — it shows up in the Talmud's laws of lost property) share the root י-א-ש letter for letter. Traditionally compared as inherited from the same Proto-Semitic root, not a later borrowing either way.
Related Hebrew word:ייאושye'ushيِئُوش
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In a phrase
يَأْس شَدِيد
yaʾs shadīdיאס שדידutter despair