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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.

Root

ع-ص-ر

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Total uses

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Verses

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Surahs

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Forms

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.

Derived forms

إِعۡصَارࣱ1أَعۡصِرُ1يَعۡصِرُونَ1ٱلۡمُعۡصِرَٰتِ1وَٱلۡعَصۡرِ1

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📖 Ayaths where this word appears (5)

Al-Baqarah 2:266

إِعْصَارٌMeaning here: The root 'ESr' primarily means to press or squeeze something to extract its contents, like juice from grapes or water from a cloth.

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

أَعْصِرُMeaning here: The root 'ESr' primarily means to press or squeeze something to extract its contents, like juice from grapes or water from a cloth.

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

يَعْصِرُونَMeaning here: The root 'ESr' primarily means to press or squeeze something to extract its contents, like juice from grapes or water from a cloth.

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

ٱلْمُعْصِرَٰتِMeaning here: The root 'ESr' primarily means to press or squeeze something to extract its contents, like juice from grapes or water from a cloth.

And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water

Al-Asr 103:1

وَٱلْعَصْرِMeaning here: The root 'ESr' primarily means to press or squeeze something to extract its contents, like juice from grapes or water from a cloth.

By the declining day