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إِِسْوَةٌ أسا أسى أسوه أسوة إِسوة اسوه اسوة سوى سوي آسى آسوه آسي and ↓ أُسْوَةٌ (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K) and ↓, أَسْوَةٌ, mentioned by Er-Rághib in one of his works, (MF,) An example; an exemplar; a pattern; an object of imitation; a person by whom one takes example; syn. قُدْوَةٌ or قِدْوَةٌ; (S, M, Msb, K;) each a subst. from اِيتَسَى بِهِ; (Mgh;) i. e. مَا يُؤْتَسَى بِهِ: (TA:) explained by Er-Rághib as meaning the condition in which is a man in respect of another's imitating [him], whether good or bad, pleasing or hurtful: (TA:) also a thing [or person] by which one who is in grief, or mourning, takes example, (S, K,) for the being consoled (لِلتَّعَزِّى) thereby: (S:) pl. إِِسًى and أُسًى; (S, K;) the former of the first sing., and the latter of the second. (TA.) The first of these meanings is intended in the saying, لِى فِي فُلَانٍ إِِسْوَةٌ and أُسْوَةٌ [I have in such a one an example, &c.]. (S.) The saying, مَا سَوِى التُّرَابِ مِنَ الأَرْضِ إِِسْوَةُ التُّرَابِ is tropical, meaning (tropical:) There is nothing but the dust of the earth, or ground, that follows the dust. (Mgh.) ― -b2- Also an inf. n., [or rather a quasi-inf. n.,] syn. with اِيتِسَآءٌ [inf. n. of 8]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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