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أ ص ل Root ʾ-ṣ-l in the Qur’an 10 occurrences in 10 verses

Occurrences
10
Verses
10
Surahs
10 of 114
Words
2

Most Arabic words are built from a root of three letters, and words from one root share a core meaning. In the Qur’an, the root أ ص ل (ʾ-ṣ-l) gives 2 words. It appears most in Al-A'raf (1), Ar-Ra'd (1), Ibrahim (1).

Words from this root

Meanings are the most common word-by-word translations of each word in the Qur’an.

WordTypeTimesTranslated as
أَصِيلnoun7evening, evenings, afternoons
أَصْلnoun3its root, bottom, their roots

أَصِيل 7 times

  • 7:205 · Al-A'rafوَٱلْـَٔاصَالِ and (in) the eveningsAnd remember your Lord within yourself in humility and in fear without being apparent in speech - in the mornings and the evenings. And do not be among the heedless.
  • 13:15 · Ar-Ra'dوَٱلْـَٔاصَالِ ۩ and in the afternoonsAnd to Allah prostrates whoever is within the heavens and the earth, willingly or by compulsion, and their shadows [as well] in the mornings and the afternoons.
  • 24:36 · An-Nurوَٱلْـَٔاصَالِ and (in) the evenings[Such niches are] in mosques which Allah has ordered to be raised and that His name be mentioned therein; exalting Him within them in the morning and the evenings
  • 25:5 · Al-Furqanوَأَصِيلًۭا and eveningAnd they say, "Legends of the former peoples which he has written down, and they are dictated to him morning and afternoon."
  • 33:42 · Al-Ahzabوَأَصِيلًا and eveningAnd exalt Him morning and afternoon.
  • 48:9 · Al-Fathوَأَصِيلًا and eveningThat you [people] may believe in Allah and His Messenger and honor him and respect the Prophet and exalt Allah morning and afternoon.
  • 76:25 · Al-Insanوَأَصِيلًۭا and eveningAnd mention the name of your Lord [in prayer] morning and evening

أَصْل 3 times

  • 14:24 · Ibrahimأَصْلُهَا its rootHave you not considered how Allah presents an example, [making] a good word like a good tree, whose root is firmly fixed and its branches [high] in the sky?
  • 37:64 · As-Saffatأَصْلِ (the) bottomIndeed, it is a tree issuing from the bottom of the Hellfire,
  • 59:5 · Al-Hashrأُصُولِهَا their rootsWhatever you have cut down of [their] palm trees or left standing on their trunks - it was by permission of Allah and so He would disgrace the defiantly disobedient.

How we count

Each Qur’an word whose stem comes from this root counts once. Attached prefixes and pronouns, such as wa- (and) or al- (the), are not counted separately. Root and lemma data: Quranic Arabic Corpus (Kais Dukes, University of Leeds), revised by quran-morphology, GNU GPL. All sources. Verse translation: Saheeh International.

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