ليس

Etymology 1
. Traditionally taken to be a contracted pronunciation of either an earlier form, whose ultimate origin is in turn unknown or unexplored, or of + an existential  that has a proposed etymology in. This existential would be a native cognate to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, although Al-Jallad (2018) expresses doubt that it is anything more than a back-formation from the negative, in other words implying that +  is just a folk etymology from which  was created artificially. Al-Jallad proceeds to attest a form of in a  inscription dated between the first century BC and the fourth century AD, whose form, he says, invalidates the possibility of an origin in a verb ; he thereby argues that  may either be a loan from  or from.

Verb

 * 1)  not to be
 * 2)  except
 * 3) not to exist; there is not
 * 1) not to exist; there is not
 * 1) not to exist; there is not

Usage notes
This is a defective verb. It has only perfect indicative forms with a present-tense meaning. If there is a, it comes up in the accusative or (with ) the genitive.

Conjugation

 * Before consonantal endings, the diphthong -ay- is reduced to a short -a-:

Conjunction

 * 1)  not
 * 2) * "ar"

- أَيْنَ الْمَفَرُّ وَالْإِلَهُ الطَّالِبُ وَالْأَشْرَمُ الْمَغْلُوبُ لَيْسَ الْغَالِبُ

Verb

 * 1) to be valiant, to be brave, to be courageous