Quranic root
صوت
ṣ · w · t
The root denotes sound: anything perceptible by the hearer's ear, especially a voice or utterance.
From audible sound, the lexical field extends to producing or raising a voice, calling and answering when called, and fame or repute understood as a report spreading among people. These developments are root-level associations and are not all direct meanings of the Quranic noun.
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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.
صَوْتٌ
ṣawtun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 8 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.
An audible sound or voice, including the sound of speech, a vocal cry, or a sound produced by a living being or other thing.
The Quran uses both singular and plural forms for a voice or for sounds generally. The term is broader than articulated speech and may refer to human, animal, or other audible sound.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 20:108word 8
“the voices”
Quran 31:19word 9
“(of all) sounds”
Quran 31:19word 10
“(is) surely (the) voice”
Quran 49:2word 6
“your voices”
The sound of singing or musical instruments.
In the Quranic expression بِصَوْتِكَ, this is an interpretation of the sound associated with singing and musical pipes; it is a context-specific usage and should not be generalized to every occurrence of the noun.
- Lane · entry 26820
Selected Quran examples
Quran 17:64word 5
“with your voice”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 17:64بِصَوْتِكَwith your voice
- 20:108ٱلْأَصْوَاتُthe voices
- 31:19صَوْتِكَ ۚyour voice
- 31:19ٱلْأَصْوَٰتِ(of all) sounds
- 31:19لَصَوْتُ(is) surely (the) voice
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 22 Classical meanings
صَاتَ
To sound; to make, produce, emit, send forth, or utter a sound, noise, voice, or cry.
Used of things, human beings, and animals.
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صَاتَ
To call, hail, summon, or shout to someone.
Attested with بِـ in the calling or summoning construction.
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صَوْتٌ
Lamentation or a lamenting cry.
A specialized nominal use distinct from the general meaning ‘sound’ or ‘voice’.
- Lane · entry 26815
صَوَّتَ
To raise one's voice, call out, cry, shout, or vociferate.
A derived verbal use denoting vocal production or intensified calling.
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صَوَّتَ
To cause an object to sound, such as making a bow twang or another object produce a sound.
Transitive causative use.
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أَصْوَتَ
To become famous or acquire renown.
Used of acquiring صِيت, or a reputation known among people.
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أَصْوَتَ
To cause something to sound.
Transitive use, including making a bow or a resinous object produce a sound.
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أَصْوَتَ
To render a person notorious by an unwanted deed.
Attested with بِـ in a construction describing the spread of an unwelcome reputation.
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اِنْصَاتَ
To become famous or celebrated.
Used in the expression اِنْصَاتَ بِهِ الزَّمَانُ, literally describing an age resounding with mention of someone.
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اِنْصَاتَ
To answer and come when called.
A derived use understood as responding to a call.
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اِنْصَاتَ
To become straight in stature after having been bent.
An archaic derived usage associated with the return of youthful vigor.
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اِنْصَاتَ
To go away while hiding oneself.
A distinct archaic derived usage.
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صَوْتٌ
A tone or melody, including a voice considered by its pitch, a song, or a musical air.
Used for elevation or depression of the voice and for singing or musical performance in general.
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صَوْتٌ
A clamour, confused mixture of sounds, or cry for aid or succour.
A collective or conventional use referring to a disorderly or urgent vocal sound.
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صِيتٌ
Fame, report, renown, or reputation, whether good or evil.
Some usage restricts the term to good fame or good repute; in broader usage it may include an evil reputation as well.
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صِيتٌ
A blacksmith's hammer.
A specialized nominal meaning.
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صِيتٌ
An artificer or handicraftsman; also a goldsmith.
A specialized nominal meaning reported with synonymous occupational terms.
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صَائِتٌ
One who makes or emits a sound, raises the voice, calls out, cries, shouts, or vociferates.
An active participial description of a sound-producing or loudly calling person or creature.
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صَيِّتٌ
Vehement, strong, or loud of voice.
An epithet attested of people and animals with a loud voice.
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مِصْوَاتٌ
One who raises the voice, calls, cries, shouts, clamours, or vociferates habitually or intensely.
The form may carry an intensive or habitual sense.
- Lane · entry 26827
مُنْصَاتٌ
Straight in stature.
An archaic nominal or adjectival usage related to the derived meaning ‘become straight’.
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إِنْصَاتٌ
Listening attentively while refraining from speech.
A derived verbal-noun usage, explicitly discussed in connection with listening to a recitation and allowing the response to follow from attentive listening.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The interpretation of بِصَوْتِكَ in 17:64 as singing or instrumental sound is context-specific; the ordinary Quranic noun remains ‘sound’ or ‘voice’.
The packet contains one QAC form group for صَوْتٌ; the additional derived forms retained above are lexical branches and are not additional QAC-counted Quranic forms.