Quranic root
صرخ
ṣ · r · kh
The root centers on producing a high or loud sound, especially a vehement cry, and extends to crying for help and responding to such a cry.
The semantic field develops from raising the voice or crying out to calling for aid, summoning assistance, answering a cry, and related derived constructions.
- Maqāyīs · row 2781
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- Quran-attested forms
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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.
اِصْطَرَخَ
āiṣṭarakha
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form VIII
- Form
- VIII
- 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 cry out or scream vehemently.
A derived form of the basic verb of loud or vehement crying; the Quranic occurrence describes repeated or sustained cries.
- Lane · entry 25782
Selected Quran examples
Quran 35:37word 2
“will cry”
اِسْتَصْرَخَ
āistaṣrakha
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form X
- Form
- X
- 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 call upon someone for aid or succor.
The construction takes the person whose help is sought; the Quranic occurrence has a direct object pronoun and describes crying out to him for help.
- Lane · entry 25787
Selected Quran examples
Quran 28:18word 10
“cried out to him for help”
صَرِيخٌ
ṣarīkhun
- Part of speech
- Noun · responder to a cry
- 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 responder to a cry for help; aid or succor that answers the cry.
In the Quranic usage, the noun denotes the person or aid that would answer an appeal for help, as in the statement that there would be no responder to their cry.
- Lane · entry 25783
- Lane · entry 25782
Selected Quran examples
Quran 36:43word 5
“(would be) a responder to a cry”
مُصْرِخٌ
muṣrikhun
- Part of speech
- Active participle · helper
- Quran occurrences
- 2 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 gives aid or succor; a helper who answers a cry for help.
The Quranic form occurs in a reciprocal negation: one party is not the helper of the other, and neither is the other party his helper.
- Lane · entry 25792
Selected Quran examples
Quran 14:22word 30
“(be) your helper”
Quran 14:22word 33
“(be) my helper”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 14:22بِمُصْرِخِكُمْ(be) your helper
- 14:22بِمُصْرِخِىَّ ۖ(be) my helper
- 28:18يَسْتَصْرِخُهُۥ ۚcried out to him for help
- 35:37يَصْطَرِخُونَwill cry
- 36:43صَرِيخَ(would be) a responder to a cry
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 15 Classical meanings
صَرَخَ
To raise the voice, call out, or cry out vehemently.
The cry may arise from fright, alarm, affliction, or an evil accident; these are attested situations of use rather than exclusive restrictions.
- Lane · entry 25782
صَرْخَةٌ / صُرَاخٌ / صَرِيخٌ
A loud or vehement call or cry; also a cry for aid or succor.
The aid-related meaning is a conventional lexical use of the cry or calling vocabulary.
- Lane · entry 25782
أَصْرَخَ
To make another person's crying cease.
This is the privative interpretation of the Form IV verb, distinct from aiding someone in response to a cry.
- Lane · entry 25783
تَصَرَّخَ
To make an effort to call or cry out, especially vehemently or for aid.
The derived form expresses effort or intensification in calling or crying.
- Lane · entry 25784
تَصَارَخَ
To call or cry out to one another.
The reciprocal construction presents the parties as calling or crying out mutually.
- Lane · entry 25785
اِسْتَصْرَخَ
To incite, urge, or induce someone to call or cry out.
The construction may concern vehement crying or crying for aid and is distinct from directly calling upon someone for help.
- Lane · entry 25787
اُسْتُصْرِخَ
To be summoned for aid, especially to help perform what is required for the dead; also to be informed of a death or impending death.
This is a passive construction describing either an appeal for practical assistance or the announcement that prompts such assistance.
- Lane · entry 25787
صَرْخَةٌ
A call to prayer.
This is a specialized nominal use of the word for a cry or call.
- Lane · entry 25788
الصَّرَّاخُ
One who calls, cries, or screams much or often.
The intensive form indicates habitual or frequent vocalization.
- Lane · entry 25791
الصَّرَّاخُ
The peacock.
This specialized designation is associated with the bird's frequent calling.
- Lane · entry 25791
صَارِخٌ
One who calls or cries out, including one who calls for aid.
The active-participial noun can describe the caller or the act of calling, with the aid-related use explicitly attested in the lexical discussion.
- Lane · entry 25792
صَارِخٌ
An aider or succorer.
This aider sense is reported with some lexical disagreement; it is distinct from the Quranic مُصْرِخٌ entry, which is separately represented above.
- Lane · entry 25792
الصَّارِخُ
The cock.
A specialized designation attributed to its frequent calling at night.
- Lane · entry 25792
صَارِخٌ
A voice or cry announcing an event, especially a death, for which aid is invoked.
The term may denote the announcing voice itself rather than the person who receives the announcement.
- Lane · entry 25792
صَارِخَةٌ
The voice or cry of a group calling for aid or succor.
This feminine noun denotes the audible appeal of the people or party making the call.
- Lane · entry 25793
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
Lane reports some disagreement over whether صَارِخٌ itself may mean an aider; the Quranic مُصْرِخٌ usage is separately and directly represented as a helper or succorer.
The Form VIII public headword is normalized to the Classical Arabic citation form اِصْطَرَخَ; the supplied Quran occurrence is its imperfect form.