Quranic root
أسو
ʾ · s · w
A root oriented toward mending and repair: treating a wound, repairing a breach, and relieving distress.
The lexical development extends from physical treatment to reconciliation, consolation in grief, taking another as an example, and sharing resources so as to equalize conditions.
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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.
أَسِيَ
ʾasiya
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 4 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.
To grieve, mourn, or feel sorrow.
Used with عَلَى, عَلَيْهِ, or لِ for the person, thing, or affliction over which one grieves. The Quranic forms express sorrow over people or circumstances, including what has passed.
- Lane · entry 6748
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 5:26word 11
“grieve”
Quran 5:68word 27
“grieve”
Quran 7:93word 12
“I grieve”
Quran 57:23word 2
“grieve”
أُسْوَةٌ
ʾuswahun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 3 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 example, model, exemplar, or pattern to be followed.
It may refer to a person or thing whose conduct is imitated, whether the example is good or bad; in the Quranic occurrences it denotes a commendable model for imitation.
- Lane · entry 6761
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Selected Quran examples
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 5:26تَأْسَgrieve
- 5:68تَأْسَgrieve
- 7:93ءَاسَىٰI grieve
- 33:21أُسْوَةٌan excellent example
- 57:23تَأْسَوْا۟grieve
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 16 Classical meanings
أَسَا
To dress or treat a wound by curative or surgical means; figuratively, to remedy a damaging affair.
The figurative use describes repairing or remedying an affair whose harm is likened to a wound.
- Lane · entry 6748
أَسَا بَيْنَهُمْ
To reconcile people, make peace between them, or settle a difference.
Used with بَيْنَ for reconciliation between parties.
- Lane · entry 6748
أَسَّى
To console someone or urge someone to be patient by recalling another person’s similar affliction and endurance.
A causative construction: the person is consoled or encouraged to take patience through another’s example.
- Lane · entry 6749
آسَى
To share property or means of subsistence with another, making the two conditions more equal.
The usage includes giving from one’s own resources so as to share with or equalize oneself with another; it can concern what is sufficient for the other’s need rather than surplus.
- Lane · entry 6750
تَآسَوْا
To share with one another and equalize their means or resources.
A reciprocal construction describing mutual sharing, imitation in material conditions, or becoming equal in subsistence.
- Lane · entry 6753
تَأَسَّى
To take patience or become consoled by another’s example after suffering a similar affliction.
Used with بِهِ for taking another person or that person’s experience as a source of consolation or endurance.
- Lane · entry 6752
اِئْتَسَى
To imitate someone, follow his example, or take him as a model.
Used with بِهِ for the person whose conduct is followed or made an object of imitation.
- Lane · entry 6754
أَسْوَيْتُهُ بِهِ
To make one person imitate another or follow another’s example.
A causative construction in which one person is made an example or model for another.
- Lane · entry 6755
أَسًى
Grief or mourning.
A noun denoting the state of sorrow associated with grieving.
- Lane · entry 6756
أُسًى
Patience or endurance.
A noun associated with bearing an affliction patiently.
- Lane · entry 6758
إِسْوَةٌ / أُسْوَةٌ
A person or thing whose example consoles someone in grief.
The consolatory force comes from recalling that another endured a similar affliction, especially when that person remained patient.
- Lane · entry 6761
أَسْوَانُ
Grieving, mourning, or sorrowful.
An adjective describing a person marked by grief or mourning.
- Lane · entry 6762
أَسًا / إِسَاءٌ / أُسَاوَةٌ
Curative, medical, or surgical treatment; a remedy, especially one for wounds.
These nominal forms include the sense of a vulnerary or wound treatment.
- Lane · entry 6756
- Lane · entry 6763
- Lane · entry 6766
أَسِيٌّ / مَأْسُوٌّ
Dressed or treated curatively, especially of a wound.
A passive description of an injury that has received medical or surgical treatment.
- Lane · entry 6765
آسٍ
A physician or person skilled in medical, curative, or surgical treatment, especially of wounds.
The associated plural forms include أُسَاةٌ and إِسَاءٌ.
- Lane · entry 6767
آسِيَةٌ
A female circumciser.
A specialized usage reported among desert peoples.
- Lane · entry 6767
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic Form I verb is normalized to the classical citation form أَسِيَ, although the supplied Quranic surface forms include تَأْسَ and ءَاسَىٰ.
The noun is presented as أُسْوَةٌ; classical evidence also records the vocalic variant إِسْوَةٌ.