Quranic root
صلو
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The supplied evidence centers this root's Quranic lexical field on prayer, supplication, blessing, places of prayer, and those who pray.
The packet supplies no matched Maqāyīs entry. Lane records additional, distinct branches involving the rear or back, striking, racing, and related derived formations; these are preserved separately rather than collapsed into the Quranic prayer vocabulary.
- Lane · entry 26474
- Lane · entry 26477
- Mufradāt · row 843
- 4
- Quran-attested forms
- 9
- Quran senses
- 99
- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
صَلَّى
ṣallā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form II
- Form
- II
- Quran occurrences
- 12 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 perform the prescribed prayer.
Used for the religious act of prayer; grammatical aspect and person vary across the Quranic forms.
- Lane · entry 26474
Selected Quran examples
Quran 3:39word 5
“praying”
Quran 4:102word 22
“prayed”
To pray or supplicate for someone; to invoke good, forgiveness, or commendation on their behalf.
Commonly occurs with عَلَى naming the person for whom the prayer is made. The construction may be used of a human or an angelic subject.
- Lane · entry 26474
Selected Quran examples
Quran 9:103word 8
“and bless”
To bless, confer blessing, show mercy, or magnify and honor.
With God as subject, the construction denotes the conferral of blessing, mercy, honor, or magnification; with angels or people, it denotes invoking such blessing, especially in the Quranic expression concerning the Prophet.
- Lane · entry 26474
Selected Quran examples
Quran 33:43word 3
“sends His blessings”
Quran 33:56word 10
“Send blessings”
صَلَاة
ṣalāh
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 83 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.
Prayer, supplication, or petition, including prayer made on behalf of another.
This is the broader nominal sense from which more specialized religious uses develop; the Quran also uses it in expressions of prayer or blessing for persons.
- Lane · entry 26477
- Mufradāt · row 843
Selected Quran examples
Quran 9:103word 11
“your blessings”
The prescribed religious prayer or service.
A conventional religious act comprising prayer and, in its fully specified form, bowing and prostration; the Quran frequently presents it as an established practice to be performed or maintained.
- Lane · entry 26477
- Mufradāt · row 843
Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:103word 13
“the (regular) prayer”
Blessing, mercy, commendation, or divine favor.
With God as the source, it denotes blessing, mercy, commendation, or magnification; in human usage it may denote an invocation of blessing. The Quranic plural can refer to blessings from God or to blessings invoked by people.
- Lane · entry 26477
- Mufradāt · row 843
Selected Quran examples
Quran 9:103word 11
“your blessings”
Quran 2:157word 3
“(are) blessings”
A place of worship, specifically a synagogue or Jewish house of worship in the Quranic plural expression.
This sense occurs in the Quranic plural صَلَوَاتٌ within a list of protected houses of worship; it is distinct from the ordinary singular sense “prayer.”
- Lane · entry 26477
Selected Quran examples
Quran 22:40word 21
“and synagogues”
مُصَلًّى
muṣallan
- Part of speech
- Noun · place of prayer
- 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.
A place designated for prayer.
The Quranic occurrence denotes a place set apart for prayer; the form is a place noun derived from the prayer vocabulary.
- Lane · entry 26479
Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:125word 11
“(as) a place of prayer”
مُصَلٍّ
muṣallin
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- 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.
One who prays; a person performing the prescribed prayer.
The supplied Quranic occurrences are masculine plural active-participle forms, but the lexical sense is the agent noun “one who prays.”
- Lane · entry 26480
Selected Quran examples
Quran 70:22word 2
“those who pray”
Quran 74:43word 5
“those who prayed”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:3ٱلصَّلَوٰةَthe prayer
- 2:43ٱلصَّلَوٰةَthe prayer
- 2:45وَٱلصَّلَوٰةِ ۚand the prayer
- 2:83ٱلصَّلَوٰةَthe prayer
- 2:110ٱلصَّلَوٰةَthe prayer
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 10 Classical meanings
صَلَوْتُهُ
To strike or beat the صَلًا, the middle or rear part of a person or quadruped, with an object, arrow, or similar implement.
A dialectal verbal usage; the object is the bodily part called صَلًا.
- Lane · entry 26473
صَلَّى
Of a horse, to follow immediately after the foremost horse at the finish of a race.
A racing term, explained by reference to the horse's position next to the foremost horse's rear parts.
- Lane · entry 26474
- Lane · entry 26480
صَلَّى
Of a wild ass, to drive his she-asses together and make them follow the way he takes.
A specialized zoological and behavioral usage of the Form II verb.
- Lane · entry 26474
أَصْلَتْ
Of a mare or she-camel, to become relaxed around the tail or rump when near parturition; of a she-camel, for the young to fall into the part called صَلًا.
A Form IV usage restricted by the lexical evidence to a mare or she-camel in the approach to giving birth.
- Lane · entry 26475
صَلًا
The middle or rear part of the back or rump, including the region beside or supporting the tail and the associated bones.
The term has several closely related anatomical applications for humans and quadrupeds. The idiom جِئْتُ فِي أَصْلَائِهِمْ means “I came at their rears.”
- Lane · entry 26476
صَلَاة
A conventional designation for the Fātiḥah, or Opening Chapter, as a form of prayer.
A metonymic conventional use in the expression سُورَةُ الصَّلَاةِ; it is not a separate Quranic form meaning in the supplied QAC occurrences.
- Lane · entry 26477
الصَّلَاة
To have sexual intercourse with a woman anally.
A rare classical construction recorded as a separate nominal branch and not attested among the supplied Quranic usages.
- Lane · entry 26477
مُصْلِيَةٌ
A mare or she-camel in the near-parturition state described under أَصْلَتْ.
A feminine active participle referring to the animal undergoing that condition.
- Lane · entry 26478
مُصَلًّى
A carpet or mat on which the prescribed prayer is performed.
A concrete object sense distinct from the place noun used in the Quranic occurrence.
- Lane · entry 26479
مُصَلٍّ
The horse that comes immediately after the foremost horse in a race.
A racing noun homonymous with the active participle “one who prays.”
- Lane · entry 26480
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The supplied Mufradāt row is shared ambiguously between Slw and Sly. Only its passages explicitly discussing صلاة, blessings, and prescribed prayer were used; its fire and roasting material was not assigned to this root.
Lane uses historical Quran citation conventions. Its reference to the plural صلوات is not converted mechanically into a modern location; the modern example 22:40 comes independently from the supplied QAC occurrence.
No matched Maqāyīs entry was supplied, so the root-level development statement is limited and does not treat a reconstructed root principle as a direct Quranic sense.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
mufradat:row:843 contains extensive صَلِيَ/اصْطَلَى and related fire, burning, and roasting material assigned ambiguously to Slw or Sly. Because the row is explicitly shared and Lane's supplied Slw evidence does not independently establish those branches for this root, that material remains unassigned.