Quranic root
حصحص
ḥ · ṣ · ḥ · ṣ
The root displays three major semantic orientations: allotting a portion, becoming clear and firmly established, and removal, loss, or scantiness.
The reduplicated verb حَصْحَصَ specializes in truth or another concealed matter becoming distinct and manifest. Other Classical branches extend the ideas of cutting off and allotting to shares, hair loss, depletion, rapid movement, and related descriptions.
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
حَصْحَصَ
ḥaṣḥaṣa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
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- Quran occurrences
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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 clear, distinct, and manifest after concealment; of the truth, to emerge as established and distinguishable from falsehood.
Quranic use in the construction الْآنَ حَصْحَصَ الْحَقُّ, describing truth becoming apparent after what concealed it has been exposed.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 12:51word 21
“(is) manifest”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 12:51حَصْحَصَ(is) manifest
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 36 Classical meanings
حَصَّهُ
To shave or cut off hair; also to cut off a portion from something.
Used directly of hair and more generally of something from which a part is severed.
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حَصَّ
To be shaved or have the hair removed.
A quasi-passive use corresponding to the transitive removal of hair.
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حَصَّ
To sever or cut a tie of relationship.
Used in the expression حَصُّوا بَيْنَهُمْ رَحِمًا and marked as figurative.
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حَصَّ
To consume, do away with, or destroy everything.
Used of a dearth or drought that removes or consumes what is present.
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حَصَّ
To nip, shrivel, or blast plants or herbage.
A dialectal and figurative use applied to hoarfrost or rime damaging vegetation.
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حَصَّ
To become someone's portion or allotted share.
Used in the construction حَصَّنِي مِنَ الْمَالِ كَذَا, where property comes to someone as his share.
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حَصَّ
To run vehemently and quickly; to go or journey quickly.
Applied to rapid movement, running, or pace.
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حَاصَّ
To divide something with another person, each taking or allotting a portion for himself.
A Form III construction describing shared allocation of an object or property.
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أَحْصَصَ
To give someone, or a group, a portion, lot, or share.
The object may be food, drink, property, or another divisible resource.
- Lane · entry 14656
تَحَاصَّ
To divide property among themselves in portions or shares.
A reciprocal construction in which each participant takes his allotment.
- Lane · entry 14657
انْحَصَّ
For hair, plumage, foliage, or fur to be removed, fall off, or become scattered.
It may describe hair falling away gradually, a beard becoming short, a tail being cut off, or feathers, foliage, or fur being stripped away.
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حَصْحَصَةٌ
The walking of a shackled person.
A specialized noun describing movement while restrained by shackles.
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حَصْحَصَ
To strive, labor, exert oneself, or take extraordinary pains in an affair.
Used of strenuous effort exceeding the usual bounds.
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حَصْحَصَ
For a camel to fix or steady its knees in order to rise with a load, or to lie down on its breast with folded legs.
A specialized description of a camel's movement and posture.
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حِصَّةٌ
A portion, lot, or share of a whole, including a share of food, drink, land, or property.
The noun denotes both a physical portion and an allotted share; its plural is حِصَصٌ.
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حَصَصٌ
Paucity or scantiness of the hair of the head or of a horse's fetlock; also shortness of the beard from hair breaking off.
It can describe a condition in which hair does not grow long, including after prolonged illness.
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حُصَاصٌ
Mange or scab causing hair to fall off.
The condition is named for the resulting loss of hair.
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حُصَاصٌ
Vehemence or quickness of running.
Applied especially to an ass; descriptions may include erecting the ears, wagging the tail, and running.
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حُصَاصٌ
An audible emission of wind from the anus.
A reported alternative interpretation of the term in a traditional expression; the same source prefers the interpretation relating it to rapid running.
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حَصِيصٌ
Hair that has been shaven off; also a noun for such shaven hair.
Applied specifically to hair removed by shaving.
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حَصِيصَةٌ
What is collected from shaving or plucking.
The term refers to the material removed by shaving or plucking.
- Lane · entry 14665
حَصِيصَةٌ
The hair or fur of the ear.
Some authorities extend the term to hair or fur generally, though the ear-specific use is reported as the more established one.
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حَصِيصَةٌ
The hair above the part of a horse next to the hoof.
The designation is explained by the scantiness of that hair.
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حَصْحَاصٌ
A laborious, swift journey or pace, especially a night journey to water without flagging.
The journey may also be characterized as long or far-extending; the term is used in the expressions قَرَبٌ حَصْحَاصٌ and سَيْرٌ حَصْحَاصٌ.
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حَاصَّةٌ
A disease that causes hair to fall off gradually and become scattered, or removes it entirely.
Applied to a disease characterized by loss of hair.
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حَاصَّةٌ
A relationship that has been severed or deprived of its due affection.
A figurative active-participle form used of a tie of kinship that has been cut.
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أَحَصُّ
Having little or no hair, or having hair that has been rubbed, shaven, or fallen off.
Applied to the head, beard, breast, tail, neck, horse fetlock, camel fur, or a bird's wing plumage, as specified by the lexical evidence.
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أَحَصُّ
Having no visible marks, streaks, or grain, said of a sword.
A figurative adjectival use.
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أَحَصُّ
Unlucky, unpropitious, or lacking good fortune.
Applied to a man or woman and marked as figurative.
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الأَحَصَّانِ
The slave and the ass, in a conventional expression.
The expression is explained through the two animals' declining value as they age.
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أَحَصُّ
A person who cuts or severs a tie of relationship.
A figurative adjectival use applied to someone who breaks kinship ties.
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حَصَّاءُ
A sterile or drought-stricken year with little or no herbage.
A figurative use describing a year lacking productive vegetation.
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أَحَصُّ
An intensely cold day.
The term describes a clear, cloudless day whose severe cold does not abate.
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حَصَّاءُ
A clear wind without dust.
A figurative adjectival use applied to wind.
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حَصْحَصَةٌ
Going or traveling through the land.
A verbal-noun usage recorded as a branch of the reduplicated form, distinct from the Quranic sense of becoming manifest.
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حُصّ
A name for الوَرْس.
Recorded as an anomalous lexical item outside the principal semantic branches.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic sense is securely located at 12:51:21. Lane records several closely related nuances for the phrase, including becoming established, distinct, or manifest after concealment; these are presented as one subsuming sense rather than separate translations.