Quranic root
حصل
ḥ · ṣ · l
The root centers on gathering or bringing something together, especially what is extracted, collected, or brought to completion.
From the idea of gathering, the root develops usages for extracting a product, making hidden contents apparent, collecting results, and denoting what remains or results from an action. Related specialized usages include the bird's crop and collected agricultural produce.
- Maqāyīs · row 1378
- Mufradāt · row 331
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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.
حَصَّلَ
ḥaṣṣala
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form II
- Form
- II
- 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 make manifest or bring to light what is hidden within.
In the Quranic passive construction concerning what is in the breasts, the hidden contents are disclosed or made apparent.
- Lane · entry 14743
- Mufradāt · row 331
Selected Quran examples
Quran 100:10word 1
“And is made apparent”
To distinguish or discriminate what is contained within.
A Quran-attested interpretation of the passive construction concerning what is in the breasts; the contents are separated or made discernible.
- Lane · entry 14743
To gather and collect what is contained within.
A Quran-attested interpretation of the same passive construction, including the idea that what is within is collected in registers.
- Lane · entry 14743
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Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 100:10وَحُصِّلَAnd is made apparent
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 34 Classical meanings
حَصَلَ
To come forth, be produced, extracted, or brought out; to emerge or become apparent.
Used of a product brought out from a source, such as metal from ore, a kernel from its shell, or grain from straw, and more generally of something that comes out or presents itself.
- Lane · entry 14742
حَصَلَ
To exist or come into being; to become realized, prepared, ready, attained, or obtained.
A general Form I usage for the coming into existence or attainment of a thing.
- Lane · entry 14742
حَصَلَ
To happen, occur, take place, or befall.
Used of an event or incident.
- Lane · entry 14742
حَصَلَ
To result, ensue, arise, proceed, supervene, or accrue; to be produced as a sum, product, or quotient.
Used of an outcome or consequence, including the result of a calculation.
- Lane · entry 14742
حَصَلَ
To remain or continue after the rest has gone or passed away.
Used of what persists from a reckoning, an action, or a similar process.
- Lane · entry 14742
حَصَلَ
To be established, fixed, binding, due, or obligatory.
The construction حَصَلَ لِي عَلَيْهِ may state that an amount or obligation became incumbent on someone to render as a debt.
- Lane · entry 14742
حَصِلَ
To suffer from earth or pebbles eaten and retained inside the body.
Said of a horse, camel, or other beast when swallowed earth or pebbles remain internally and cause illness; also said of a boy when a stone is described as falling or remaining in the scrotum.
- Lane · entry 14742
حَصَّلَ
To extract, bring forth, or separate a product from its source.
The transitive Form II counterpart of حَصَلَ; examples include extracting precious metal from ore, a kernel from its shell, or grain from straw.
- Lane · entry 14743
حَصَّلَ
To bring into being, realize, prepare, or make ready.
A broader transitive Form II usage not specifically established by the supplied Quran occurrence.
- Lane · entry 14743
حَصَّلَ
To separate, discriminate, or distinguish what remains from what has passed away.
Used transitively when the remainder or surviving portion is sorted out from what is no longer present.
- Lane · entry 14743
حَصَّلَ
To perceive or apprehend a thing.
A transitive Form II usage distinct from producing or collecting it.
- Lane · entry 14743
حَصَّلَ
To attain, obtain, overtake, or acquire advantage, profit, or benefit.
Used of reaching or securing a thing, and of gaining an advantage or profit.
- Lane · entry 14743
حَصَّلَ
To collect and condense material; to reduce speech to its essential import, or for speech to comprise a matter.
Used of bringing the substance of a sentence or discourse together into its sum and substance, and of speech comprehending something within its scope.
- Lane · entry 14743
أَحْصَلَ
Of palms or dates, to put forth unripe or ripening dates; of dates, to emerge and become round; of a palm spadix, to become yellow.
A specialized Form IV botanical usage concerning the stages and appearance of palm produce.
- Lane · entry 14744
تَحَصَّلَ
To become collected and remain or continue.
A Form V intransitive usage describing something that gathers and persists.
- Lane · entry 14745
حَوْصَلَ
Of a bird, to fill its crop or stomach.
A quadriliteral usage referring to filling the bird's حَوْصَلَة.
- Lane · entry 14746
حَصَلٌ
Unripe or ripening dates, dates that have become hard and round, or the yellow spadix of a palm; also fresh green produce that has fallen and scattered from a palm.
A botanical noun for stages or remnants of palm produce.
- Lane · entry 14748
حَصِيلٌ
A certain plant.
- Lane · entry 14750
حُصَالَةٌ
The residue or discarded matter left from threshing or sifting grain.
Includes what remains after the bulk of the grain has been removed, as well as inferior or rejected particles of barley and wheat.
- Lane · entry 14751
حَاصِلٌ
What is produced, extracted, or made apparent; especially purified precious metal obtained from ore, and the yield or net produce of land or another source of revenue.
A nominal description of a product or yield, including what has been brought out or cleared from its source.
- Lane · entry 14754
حَاصِلٌ
Profit, advantage, gain, or acquisition.
Used of a benefit or gain secured from an action or transaction.
- Lane · entry 14754
حَاصِلٌ
The result, outcome, conclusion, end, issue, or ultimate effect of a thing; also the result of an arithmetical process.
Includes a sum, product, or quotient and, more generally, the consequence or outcome of an event or process.
- Lane · entry 14754
حَاصِلٌ
The sum and substance or essential import of a sentence or discourse.
A nominal usage for the condensed meaning comprehended by speech.
- Lane · entry 14754
حَاصِلٌ
A remainder, remnant, residue, or surviving portion left after the rest has gone.
Used of what remains from a thing, a reckoning, or an action.
- Lane · entry 14754
حَوْصَلٌ
A depression or sheltered place where water rests in a meadow; also the far end of a watering-trough or tank where water remains.
The meadow sense is associated with herbage that is the last to dry up.
- Lane · entry 14755
حَوْصَلٌ
A sheep or goat large in the part of the belly above the navel.
A specialized description of an animal's enlarged upper abdomen.
- Lane · entry 14755
حَوْصَلٌ
A certain plant.
- Lane · entry 14755
حَيْصَلٌ
The plant called بَاذَنْجَان, eggplant.
- Lane · entry 14756
حَوْصَلَةٌ
The stomach or crop of a bird; also the intestines of an animal with a cloven hoof or hoof.
For birds, the term may denote the crop specifically or the set of stomachs including the crop and gizzard; for certain animals it is used for the intestines.
- Lane · entry 14757
حَوْصَلَةٌ
Figuratively, a storeroom or magazine, and a cell or compartment of a prison.
A figurative extension from the bodily cavity or place in which things are gathered.
- Lane · entry 14757
حَوْصَلَةٌ
The lower part of the belly, extending to the pubes; the place where feces collect; or the region between the navel and pubes.
Used of a man or of an animal.
- Lane · entry 14757
حَوْصَلَّةٌ
A baked-clay vessel resembling a حُقَّة.
A specialized nominal usage, with the cited colloquial form noted in the lexical evidence.
- Lane · entry 14759
مُحَصِّلٌ
A person who clears or purifies silver or gold from ore.
The feminine مُحَصِّلَةٌ denotes a woman who separates the mineral-bearing earth for extracting precious metal.
- Lane · entry 14761
مُحَوْصَلٌ
Protuberant in the lower abdomen near the navel, as in a pregnant woman.
An adjectival description of a pronounced lower-belly protuberance.
- Lane · entry 14763
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The single QAC occurrence is the passive Form II form حُصِّلَ at 100:10:1; the public headword is normalized to the active perfect citation form حَصَّلَ.
The senses “made manifest,” “distinguished,” and “collected” are distinct attested interpretations of the same Quranic construction, not separate Quran occurrences.