أَحسَن
áḥsan
basic morphological information

adj.

better
лучше
أفضل
CSOL II 484; ad-Daˁrhi et al. 2019:543
text examples

náˁaʰ áḥsan hek ľaw kɛn gέhɛmk ‘It would be better for you now, were you to go back home’ (CSOL II 16:11)

other notes

Another derivate from the same Arabic root is ḥásanaʰ ‘good deed’: di-gédaḥ be-ṭeʸh ḥásanaʰ yóuṣaḷ heʸh ˁáŝer ḥasanát ‘for one who performs one good deed, ten more will be bestowed on him’ (ad-Daˁrhi et al. 2019:83)

etymology

An Arabism (Wehr 178, Behnstedt 257)