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ع-ي-ش

living, livelihood

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فَعَلَ
Form I verb (a)
فَعَلَ = the plain action, 'he did it'
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- عَاشَ
  to live (be alive; spend one's life somewhere)
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  يَعِيشُ
  Command
  عِشْ
  أَعِيشُ فِي الرِّيَاضِ I live in Riyadh
فَعْل
Short noun فَعْل
فَعْل = the act, or a basic thing
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- عَيْشٌ
  life, living; (Egypt) bread
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مَفْعِلَة
Noun مَفْعِلَة
مَفْعِلَة = a noun of result or place with i
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- مَعِيشَةٌ
  livelihood; cost of living
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  غَلَاءُ الْمَعِيشَةِ the high cost of living
فِعْلَة
Noun فِعْلَة
فِعْلَة = a unit or a way of doing
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- عِيشَةٌ
  a way of life
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فَاعِل
Doer (active participle of form I)
فَاعِل = the one who does it
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- عَائِشٌ
  living, alive (and the name عَائِشَة)
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  Feminine
  عَائِشَةٌ

How the patterns shape this root

عَاشَ is to live — to be alive and to spend your life somewhere: أَعِيشُ فِي الرِّيَاضِ (while سَكَنَ is to live at an address). A hollow root: عَاشَ، يَعِيشُ، عِشْ. عَيْش is life or living (in Egypt it also means bread, the stuff of life), مَعِيشَة (مَفْعِلَة) is the livelihood or cost of living, and عِيشَة a way of life. The doer عَائِش, 'living', gives the name عَائِشَة.

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