Quranic root
أشر
ʾ · sh · r
A root oriented toward sharpness, cutting edges, and forceful keenness.
The sharpness principle appears physically in sawing wood and serrated edges, and figuratively in energetic impetuosity and excessive exultation.
- Maqāyīs · row 99
- Mufradāt · row 38
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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.
أَشِرٌ
ʾashirun
- Part of speech
- Adjective
- 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.
Extremely exultant, insolent, boastful, and unthankful.
A Quranic adjective for exultation driven by pride and desire rather than a rightly directed joy; the term is stronger than ordinary بَطَرٌ, or self-delighting exultation.
- Lane · entry 6784
- Lane · entry 6791
- Mufradāt · row 38
Selected Quran examples
Quran 54:25word 9
“insolent”
Quran 54:26word 5
“the insolent one”
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 18 Classical meanings
أَشَرَ
To divide or saw a piece of wood with a saw.
A Form I verbal use concerning cutting wood.
- Lane · entry 6784
أَشَرَ
To make teeth serrated and sharpen their tips.
A tooth-sharpening and serration practice; the source illustrates it with making the teeth resemble those of a young person.
- Lane · entry 6784
اِئْتَشَرَ
To invite another to have the teeth serrated and their tips sharpened.
A derived construction referring to arranging or requesting the tooth-sharpening practice.
- Lane · entry 6786
أَشِرٌ
Of lightning: flashing repeatedly to and fro.
A figurative adjectival use.
- Lane · entry 6791
أَشِرٌ
Of a plant or herbage: extending beyond its proper bounds.
A figurative adjectival use describing excessive outward growth.
- Lane · entry 6791
أُشُرٌ
Serrations or sharp projections at the ends of teeth; by extension, the teeth of a reaping hook or sickle.
The term may describe natural or artificial tooth serration and is also applied to serrated cutting projections.
- Lane · entry 6793
أَشْرَاءُ
In أُمْنِيَّةٌ أَشْرَاءُ, an intensely exultant or overweening wish.
A conventional poetic expression.
- Lane · entry 6795
آشِرٌ
One who divides or saws wood with a saw.
An active participial noun for the wood-sawing activity.
- Lane · entry 6798
آشِرٌ
Serrated projections on a locust’s shanks and claw-like projections at the end of its tail.
An anatomical application associated with serrated or cutting projections.
- Lane · entry 6798
آشِرَةٌ
A woman who has the ends of her teeth sharpened and serrated.
A feminine agent noun for the tooth-sharpening practice.
- Lane · entry 6798
آشِرَةٌ
In يَدٌ آشِرَةٌ, a hand or arm that has been sawn off.
A conventional expression in which the active-looking adjective has a passive resultative sense.
- Lane · entry 6798
تَأْشِيرٌ
The thing with which a locust bites.
An anatomical noun; its plural is also recorded.
- Lane · entry 6799
مُؤَشَّرٌ
Made thin and serrated; especially a tooth sharpened at its tip or a similarly serrated part.
Applied to sharpened front teeth and to thin, serrated fore-shanks of a beetle.
- Lane · entry 6800
مِئْشَارٌ
A saw, an instrument for dividing wood.
A tool noun with recorded plural مَآشِيرُ.
- Lane · entry 6801
مَأْشُورٌ
Wood divided or sawn with a saw.
A passive participial noun describing the resulting wood.
- Lane · entry 6802
مَأْشُورَةٌ
A woman whose tooth tips have been sharpened and serrated artificially.
A feminine passive participial noun for the result of the tooth-sharpening practice.
- Lane · entry 6802
مِئْشِيرٌ
Brisk, lively, or sprightly.
Applied to people and animals, without restriction to one sex.
- Lane · entry 6803
مُؤْتَشِرَةٌ
A woman who invites another to have the teeth serrated and their tips sharpened.
A feminine derived participial use referring to the tooth-sharpening construction.
- Lane · entry 6804
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The two Quranic occurrences attest the adjectival exultation and insolence branch; the sawing, serration, anatomical, and liveliness branches are broader Classical Arabic evidence.
The Arabic labels for the locust-related subunits of Lane entry 6798 are partially lost in the supplied transcription; their anatomical referents are clear, but the exact subheadword labeling is uncertain.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
The omitted Arabic terms in lane-unit:A$r:6798:g1:sub2 and lane-unit:A$r:6798:g1:sub3 prevent certainty about the precise lexical labels attached to the locust shank and tail projections, although the meanings are represented under آشِرٌ.