Quranic root
شطط
sh · ṭ · ṭ
The root centers on distance and inclination: going far from a point or departing from a proper line.
The notion of distance develops into exceeding due bounds, extravagance, and injustice through deviation from what is right; it also extends to physical sides, separation, and stature.
- Maqāyīs · row 2636
- Mufradāt · row 767
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- Quran-attested forms
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- Quran senses
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- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
أَشْطَطَ
ʾashṭaṭa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To depart from what is right; to exceed due bounds or act unjustly, especially in judgment.
In the Quranic prohibitive construction وَلَا تُشْطِطْ, it means not to go beyond right conduct or deal unjustly in judging.
- Lane · entry 38501
Selected Quran examples
Quran 38:22word 19
“be unjust”
شَطَطٌ
shaṭaṭun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
An excessive departure from truth or right; an extravagant or far-from-truth statement or claim.
In the Quranic occurrences, it describes a saying or claim that is excessively remote from the truth, including an assertion made about God.
- Lane · entry 38509
- Mufradāt · row 767
Selected Quran examples
Quran 18:14word 19
“an enormity”
Quran 72:4word 7
“an excessive transgression”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 3 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 18 Classical meanings
شَطَّ
To be or become distant, remote, or far away; to pass beyond or away from a place.
Used of a dwelling, place, or other location, and of moving far from a place.
- Lane · entry 38501
شَطَّ
To go beyond due bounds in bargaining, pricing, or demanding a price; also to go to great lengths in pursuing someone or something.
Used with commercial transactions, demands, and pursuit.
- Lane · entry 38501
شَطَّ
To distress or afflict someone and treat that person unjustly, wrongfully, injuriously, or tyrannically.
A transitive use describing harmful unjust treatment of another person.
- Lane · entry 38501
شَطَّ
To be rough, harsh, or coarse in speech.
Used of the manner or quality of speaking.
- Lane · entry 38501
شَطَّطَ
To exert oneself or persist in exceeding due bounds and acting unjustly or wrongfully.
Form II conveys strenuous or sustained engagement in the excessive or unjust action.
- Lane · entry 38502
شَاطَّ
To vie with another in exceeding bounds or acting unjustly, and to surpass or overcome that person in it.
A reciprocal construction involving competition in the excessive or unjust conduct.
- Lane · entry 38503
شَطٌّ
The bank or side of a river or valley; for a valley, the rising ground beside its bottom.
A geographical noun for the side or bank adjoining a watercourse or valley.
- Lane · entry 38506
شَطٌّ
The side or half of a camel’s hump.
A specialized anatomical use referring to either side of the hump.
- Lane · entry 38506
شَطَطٌ
An extravagant or exorbitant action or affair that exceeds due bounds.
Used of conduct or an affair, as distinct from the Quranic use describing an extravagant saying or claim.
- Lane · entry 38509
شَطَاطٌ
Distance or remoteness.
A nominal expression for the distance of a space or route.
- Lane · entry 38510
شَطَاطٌ
The distance between a person’s extremities; hence tallness, beauty of stature, or well-proportioned stature.
A physical description of extended or well-proportioned bodily stature.
- Lane · entry 38510
شَطَاطٌ
A fragment of baked brick.
A concrete noun, also reported in a plural form.
- Lane · entry 38510
شَطُوطٌ
A she-camel with a large hump, or one large on the two sides of its hump.
A specialized description of a camel’s hump.
- Lane · entry 38512
شَطْشَاطٌ
A certain bird.
The identification is reported as having no established authority.
- Lane · entry 38515
شَاطٌّ
Distant, remote, or far away.
An adjectival use applied to anything characterized by remoteness.
- Lane · entry 38516
شَاطٌّ
A person of tall or well-proportioned stature, whose extremities are far apart.
A physical description of stature; the source illustrates it with both male and female persons.
- Lane · entry 38516
شَاطٌّ
Unjust, wrongful, injurious, or tyrannical in judging.
An adjectival description of unjust conduct in judgment.
- Lane · entry 38516
مَشَطَّةٌ
Difficulty, distress, affliction, trouble, or inconvenience.
A derived noun for hardship or troubling circumstances.
- Lane · entry 38517
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The public verb headword is normalized to the Form IV perfect أَشْطَطَ; the supplied Quran occurrence is its imperfect prohibitive form تُشْطِطْ.
The bird meaning شَطْشَاطٌ is retained because it is a reported lexical item, but its source explicitly marks the identification as lacking established authority.