يأس

Verbal noun of يَئِسَ (yaʔisa, “to despair”).

• IPA^(key): /jaʔs/

يَأْس • (yaʔs) m

1. verbal noun of يَئِسَ (yaʔisa, “to despair”) (form I)
2. despair, hopelessness

   لَا يَأْسَ مَعَ ٱلْحَيَاةِ

   lā yaʔsa maʕa l-ḥayāti

   while there's life, there's hope

   (literally, “there's no despair with life”)

   يشعر كثيرون باليأس أو بالغضب بسبب الأوضاع حولهم

   Many people feel hopeless or angry about the situation around them.

• سِنُّ الْيَأْسِ (sinnu l-yaʔsi)

• Maltese: jies
• → Persian: یاس (yâs)
• → Turkish: yeis

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “يأس”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen