Arabic word sheet
أُسْطُورَةٌ
Legend, fabulous tale
- Type
- noun
- Root
- س ط ر
Meaning and usage
Legend, fabulous tale
A wonderful story handed down, often about ancient times, that rests on nothing established.
حَكَتِ الْجَدَّةُ أُسْطُورَةً قَدِيمَةً لِلْأَطْفَالِ.
The grandmother told the children an old legend.
Fabrication, tall story
Said, dismissively, of something told that one holds to be false and made up.
كَلَامُ الْبَائِعِ عَنِ السِّلْعَةِ أُسْطُورَةٌ.
What the seller says about the goods is a tall story.
Plural
أَسَاطِيرُ
Word family
What the root means س ط ر
The basic verb means to write, to set a text down in writing. The line of writing, composing a text and the ruler for drawing lines come from it; the headword is attached to it as the tale of the ancients set down in writing.
to write
سَطَرَ
line, row
سَطْرٌ
to write out, to compose
سَطَّرَ
written, set down in lines
مَسْطُورٌ
ruler (for drawing lines)
مِسْطَرَةٌ
cleaver
سَاطُورٌ
Synonyms
fable, fanciful tale
خُرَافَةٌ
It is said of an entertaining tale that cannot be believed, or of a groundless popular belief; the headword rather calls up tales inherited from the ancients.