عصر
ʿ-ṣ-r
The root 'ESr' primarily means to press or squeeze something to extract its contents, like juice from grapes or water from a cloth.
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ع-ص-ر
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Root
ع-ص-ر
Root Meaning
The root 'ESr' primarily means to press or squeeze something to extract its contents, like juice from grapes or water from a cloth.
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📖 Ayaths where this word appears (5)
Al-Baqarah 2:266
Would any of you like to have a garden of palm-trees and vines, with rivers flowing underneath it, with all kinds of fruit for him therein; and old age hath stricken him and he hath feeble offspring; and a fiery whirlwind striketh it and it is (all) consumed by fire. Thus Allah maketh plain His revelations unto you, in order that ye may give thought
Yusuf 12:36
And two young men went to prison with him. One of them said: I dreamed that I was pressing wine. The other said: I dreamed that I was carrying upon my head bread whereof the birds were eating. Announce unto us the interpretation, for we see thee of those good (at interpretation)
Yusuf 12:49
Then, after that, will come a year when the people will have plenteous crops and when they will press (wine and oil)
An-Naba 78:14
And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water
Al-Asr 103:1
By the declining day