حس

What it means

حس (hess) means “feeling, sense, sensation.” Arabic loanword, A2 vocabulary. Covers both physical senses (touch, taste) and emotional feelings (love, intuition). The most common word for “feeling” in modern Persian.

How to use it

• چه حسی داری؟ (che hessi dâri?) “What is your feeling?”
• حس می‌کنم (hess mikonam) “I feel, I sense”
• حس خوبی است (hess-e khubi ast) “It is a good feeling”

Common pairings

• حس کردن (hess kardan) “to feel, to sense”
• حس ششم (hess-e sheshom) “sixth sense”
• بی‌حس (bi-hess) “numb, without feeling”
• حساس (hassâs) “sensitive”
• احساس (ehsâs) “feeling, emotion” (longer formal alt)

Etymology

From Arabic حسّ (ḥass, “sense, feeling”), triliteral root ح س س (“to feel, perceive”). The same root yields حساس (hassâs, “sensitive”), احساس (ehsâs, “emotion”), and محسوس (mahsus, “perceptible”). In modern Persian, حس has eclipsed Pure Persian alternatives like بسد (basad). The phrase حس می‌کنم (hess mikonam, “I feel”) is one of the highest-frequency expressions in spoken Persian.

References

• Dehkhoda
• Wiktionary