Quranic root
شخص
sh · kh · ṣ
The root centers on something rising, elevated, or standing out visibly.
From elevation, the lexicon extends to a figure rising into view, departure, raised or fixed sight, an arrow overshooting its target, swelling, and bodily bulk. Derived forms also express causing elevation or movement and individuating something.
- Maqāyīs · row 2590
- Mufradāt · row 753
- Lane · entry 38053
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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.
شَخَصَ
shakhaṣa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- 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 become fixedly open and staring; of the eyes or sight, to remain raised or stretched without blinking.
Used of the eyes or sight in the Quranic description of intense, motionless staring.
- Lane · entry 38053
- Mufradāt · row 753
Selected Quran examples
Quran 14:42word 11
“will stare”
شَاخِصٌ
shākhiṣun
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- 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.
Fixedly open and staring, with the eyes held motionless and unblinking.
Active participle describing eyes or sight in the Quranic context.
- Lane · entry 38060
- Mufradāt · row 753
Selected Quran examples
Quran 21:97word 6
“(are) staring”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 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 27 Classical meanings
شَخَصَ
To rise, become elevated, or appear above or into view; said, for example, of a star or a visible figure.
Intransitive Form I usage describing physical or visual elevation.
- Lane · entry 38053
شَخَصَ
To raise the voice so that it cannot be lowered.
A vocal or speech construction; the Lane evidence also describes a word or sentence rising toward the palate.
- Lane · entry 38053
شَخَصَ
Of an arrow, to rise above and pass beyond the target or object of aim.
Used of an arrow overshooting by going above its intended target.
- Lane · entry 38053
شَخَصَ
To go away or travel from one place, town, or country to another.
Intransitive movement or departure from a place of residence or settlement.
- Lane · entry 38053
شَخَصَ
To rise, swell, or become protuberant or prominent.
Applied to a thing or to a wound that rises and becomes swollen.
- Lane · entry 38053
شَخَصَ
To become disquieted by something that happens, or to have a disturbing event befall one.
A figurative usage presenting the disturbed person as if raised from the ground by agitation.
- Lane · entry 38053
شَخُصَ
To be or become big, bulky, or corpulent.
Describes bodily size or build.
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شَخَّصَ
To individuate, identify, or specify a thing.
Form II transitive usage meaning to assign a thing its particular identity or designation.
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أَشْخَصَ
To make someone or something rise or become elevated; to raise oneself.
Form IV causative usage.
- Lane · entry 38055
أَشْخَصَ
Of an archer or arrow, to cause an arrow to pass above and beyond the target.
Causative and intransitive formulations are both attested for an arrow overshooting its object of aim.
- Lane · entry 38055
أَشْخَصَ
To make someone go away or travel from one place to another.
Form IV causative movement or departure.
- Lane · entry 38055
أَشْخَصَ
To disquiet someone, causing him to leave a place.
Figurative causative usage linking disturbance with departure.
- Lane · entry 38055
أَشْخَصَ
Of the time for journeying, to arrive or become due.
An impersonal temporal construction concerning the time of departure or travel.
- Lane · entry 38055
أَشْخَصَ
To show someone a sour, crabbed, or austere face or manner.
Used with a person as the object of the hostile or displeased look.
- Lane · entry 38055
أَشْخَصَ
To speak ill of someone behind his back; to backbite him.
A Form IV idiomatic usage concerning speech about an absent person.
- Lane · entry 38055
تَشَخَّصَ
To become individuated or assume the quality of individuality or personality.
Quasi-passive or reflexive Form V usage.
- Lane · entry 38056
شَخْصٌ
A visible body, bodily form, figure, or material substance, especially one that has height and can be seen from a distance.
Physical usage applied to a person or another material object.
- Lane · entry 38057
شَخْصٌ
A person, individual, self, or being.
Extended usage for a person or personal entity, including metaphorical use for a self or being.
- Lane · entry 38057
شَخِيصٌ
Big, bulky, corpulent, or great in bodily make.
An adjective describing substantial bodily build.
- Lane · entry 38058
شَخِيصٌ
A lord, master, chief, person of rank, or personage.
A designation of status or social standing.
- Lane · entry 38058
شَخِيصٌ
Sour, crabbed, or austere in speech.
Applied to language or manner of speaking.
- Lane · entry 38058
شَخَاصَةٌ
Bigness, bulkiness, or corpulence; greatness of bodily build.
A noun of bodily size or substantial form.
- Lane · entry 38059
شَاخِصٌ
Of an arrow, passing beyond the target or object of aim by going above it.
Active-participial description of an overshooting arrow.
- Lane · entry 38060
شَاخِصٌ
A person prosecuting war continuously for three or more days, rather than on alternate days.
A specialized traditional usage associated with the traveler who may shorten prayer.
- Lane · entry 38060
مَشْخَصٌ
A figured representation or image; in later usage, the singular of a term for coins stamped with figures or effigies.
Later or modern usage; the source presents the citation and derivation tentatively.
- Lane · entry 38061
مُشَخَّصٌ
An individuated or specifically identified thing.
Passive-participial nominal usage.
- Lane · entry 38062
مُتَشَاخِصٌ
Discordant or at odds.
Applied to language or speech, and also to a thing or affair.
- Lane · entry 38063
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The modern verse keys and word locations in the examples are the supplied QAC locations; Lane's printed Quran references use historical citation conventions and are not independently converted here.
One Lane subunit prints سَخَصَتِ الكَلِمَةُ while a parallel subunit under the same entry explicitly gives the corresponding شَخَصَ voice usage; the raising-the-voice meaning is retained with this orthographic caution.