Quranic root
صهر
ṣ · h · r
The root has two principal semantic branches: affinity or kinship, and melting or liquefaction.
The kinship branch extends to marriage-based relationship and the formation of protected affinity, while the melting branch extends to heat effects, melted fat, and related derived forms.
- Maqāyīs · row 2854
- Mufradāt · row 854
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- Quran senses
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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.
صَهَرَ
ṣahara
- 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 melt or liquefy.
The Quranic occurrence is the passive imperfect يُصْهَرُ, describing what is in the bellies as being melted by the specified means.
- Lane · entry 26735
- Mufradāt · row 854
Selected Quran examples
Quran 22:20word 1
“Will be melted”
صِهْرٌ
ṣihrun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- 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.
An affinal relationship or kinship established through marriage; a relationship by marriage.
In the Quranic occurrence it is paired with نسب, lineage. Classical interpretation discusses its precise scope differently, including which marriage-based relations it denotes and whether they are relations one may or may not marry.
- Lane · entry 26742
- Mufradāt · row 854
Selected Quran examples
Quran 25:54word 9
“and marriage relationship”
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 19 Classical meanings
صَهَرَ
In an idiom, to make someone undergo a severe or bitter oath, figuratively to “melt” him by it.
A figurative construction involving a hard or false oath and its threatened consequence.
- Lane · entry 26735
صَهَرَ
To burn or thoroughly cook with fire.
- Lane · entry 26735
صَهَرَ
To affect severely by heat; of the sun or heat, to distress or pain, and to make a chameleon's back glisten.
The glistening use is an application of intense heat to the body or surface described.
- Lane · entry 26735
صَهَرَ
To season bread with melted fat, or to anoint the head or body with melted fat.
The applied substance is صُهَارَة or a closely related melted-fat substance.
- Lane · entry 26735
صَهَرَ، أَصْهَرَ
To bring or draw a thing near; of two parties, to draw near one another.
The use may be transitive or describe the approach of one group to another.
- Lane · entry 26735
- Lane · entry 26737
صَاهَرَ، أَصْهَرَ
To enter into affinity with a people, especially by marrying among them; to connect oneself to them through marriage, kinship, covenant, or mutual protection.
The construction describes forming the protected or inviolable relationship called صِهْر.
- Lane · entry 26736
اِنْصَهَرَ
To become melted or liquefied.
This is the intransitive or resultative counterpart of melting.
- Lane · entry 26738
اِصْطَهَرَ
To glisten under the heat of the sun.
An attested application describes a back becoming bright or glistening through solar heat.
- Lane · entry 26739
اِصْطَهَرَ
To eat melted fat.
The consumed substance is صُهَارَة.
- Lane · entry 26739
صَهْرٌ
Roasted, broiled, or fried.
A descriptive use synonymous with cooked by roasting or frying.
- Lane · entry 26741
صَهْرٌ
Hot.
- Lane · entry 26741
صِهْرٌ
A grave or sepulchre.
A figurative idiom treats the grave as a substitute son-in-law in reference to burying daughters alive.
- Lane · entry 26742
صِهْرِيٌّ
A dialectal form for a clay-and-stone reservoir or tank that holds water.
The term is reported as a variant of صِهْرِيج.
- Lane · entry 26743
صَهُورٌ
A person who melts fat; also a roaster, broiler, or fryer.
- Lane · entry 26744
صَهِيرٌ
Melted or liquefied; substantively, melted fat.
- Lane · entry 26745
صَهِيرٌ
Bread seasoned with melted fat.
- Lane · entry 26745
صُهَارَةٌ
Melted fat or what has melted from fat; also a piece of fat and, figuratively, marrow.
The marrow sense is reported as a figurative extension.
- Lane · entry 26746
صَاهُورٌ
The sheath or covering of the moon.
Reported as a lexical variant in this sense.
- Lane · entry 26748
صَيْهُورٌ
A clay or wooden platform for household brass utensils and similar objects.
This term is reported with an explicit qualification that its authority is not firmly established.
- Lane · entry 26749
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The precise scope of صِهْرٌ in the Quranic kinship context is disputed in the cited classical interpretations, particularly concerning which affinal relations and marriageability categories it includes.