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حِسّ
sense (feeling, awareness) /ˈħɪsː/
nounB2#3910 most common
Also: feeling, perception, faint sound
Example sentences
لَدَيْهِ حِسّ فُكاهِيّ.
He has a sense of humor.
حِسُّها بِالجَمالِ رائِعٌ.
Her sense of beauty is wonderful.
يَنقُصُهُ الحِسُّ الأَمنِيُّ في هٰذِهِ المِنطَقَةِ.
He lacks security awareness in this area.
فَقَدَ حِسَّهُ بِالِاتِّجاهاتِ بَعدَ الحادِثِ.
He lost his sense of direction after the accident.
تَنبُعُ قَراراتُهُ مِن حِسٍّ أَخلاقِيٍّ عَميقٍ.
His decisions stem from a deep moral sense.
لَم يَكُن في المَكانِ حِسٌّ وَلا حَرَكَةٌ، وَكَأَنَّ الزَّمَنَ تَوَقَّفَ.
There was no sound and no movement in the place, as if time had stopped.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | حِسٌّ | أَحاسيسُ |
| Genitive | حِسٍّ | أَحاسيسَ |
| Accusative | حِسًّا | أَحاسيسَ |
| Vocative | يا حِسُّ | يا أَحاسيسُ |
Word family
أَحَسَّto feel, sense, perceive
إحْساسfeeling, sensation
حاسّةa sense (one of the five senses)
حَسّاسsensitiveEtymology
حِسّ comes from the Semitic root ح-س-س (ḥ-s-s), which carries the core idea of feeling or perceiving something subtle. In early and Quranic Arabic it often named a faint, barely audible sound, the kind you sense before you can identify it. Over time its meaning widened from a physical trace of sound to the broader mental sense of feeling or awareness used in Modern Standard Arabic today.
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