Quranic root
صير
ṣ · y · r
A movement or transition toward an eventual state, end, or destination.
The root develops from coming to or changing into a state toward the endpoint, outcome, or place eventually reached.
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- Quran-attested forms
- 2
- Quran senses
- 29
- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
صَارَ
ṣāra
- 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 come ultimately to; reach as an eventual destination or referent.
Used with إِلَى for a person, thing, or affair proceeding toward a destination or final point. In the supplied Qur'anic occurrence, affairs ultimately come to God.
- Lane · entry 27017
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 42:53word 14
“reach”
مَصِير
maṣīr
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 28 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.
The eventual destination, final end, or outcome to which someone or something comes.
Frequently refers to the ultimate return or destination of people and affairs, including the final destination with God. It denotes an endpoint reached after transition to a later state or condition.
- Lane · entry 27017
- Lane · entry 27032
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 3:28word 27
“(is) the final return”
Quran 25:15word 13
“and destination”
Quran 40:3word 14
“(is) the final return”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:126ٱلْمَصِيرُ(is) the destination
- 2:285ٱلْمَصِيرُ(is) the return
- 3:28ٱلْمَصِيرُ(is) the final return
- 3:162ٱلْمَصِيرُ(is) the destination
- 4:97مَصِيرًاdestination
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 29 Classical meanings
صَارَ
To become; attain a new state or condition.
May be followed by a noun or adjective predicate. With a following imperfect verb, it can mean to come to be engaged in or begin doing something.
- Lane · entry 27017
صَارَ لَهُ
To come to have, receive, or become possessed of something; to befall someone.
Used with لِـ to express something coming to or becoming available to a person or thing.
- Lane · entry 27017
صَارَ فِي
To come to be in a place or period; enter or find oneself in a circumstance.
The construction may describe entering a physical place, a season, or another surrounding condition.
- Lane · entry 27017
صَيْرٌ / صَائِرٌ
A watering place at which people or animals stay; one who stays or a group staying at such a place.
The noun can also describe the return of herbage-seekers to their watering places.
- Lane · entry 27017
- Lane · entry 27028
صَارَهُ
To cut, cleave, or split something.
A related noun denotes a cleft or split. This meaning is also associated with the reported reading فَصُرْهُنَّ, which is not a supplied QAC form group for this root.
- Lane · entry 27017
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صَارَهُ
To make something incline or turn; turn the face toward someone or something; twist.
The usage includes turning toward a person or thing and twisting a neck. A Quranic variant reading is reported in connection with this branch, but it is not represented as a canonical supplied QAC form.
- Lane · entry 27017
- Lane · entry 27028
صَارَهُ
To confine, restrain, or restrict someone or something.
A transitive usage with a direct object.
- Lane · entry 27017
صَيَّرَ
To make someone or something become or be in a particular state; make into.
Form II causatively brings about a state or condition, whether by action or, in some usages, by declaration.
- Lane · entry 27018
صَيَّرَ
To bring, cause, or reduce someone or something to a state, place, or condition.
With إِلَى, it describes causing a person or thing to come to a destination or resulting condition.
- Lane · entry 27018
صَيَّرَ
To commit, assign, attribute, or declare something to belong to someone or something.
The construction may express entrusting an affair, assigning a possession, or establishing a status by word or covenant.
- Lane · entry 27018
تَصَيَّرَ
To resemble or take after someone in appearance or character.
Attested in the construction of becoming like one's father.
- Lane · entry 27020
صِيرٌ
The ultimate or latter state, end, conclusion, result, or issue of an affair.
It can also mean the verge or point at which an affair or task is nearing completion.
- Lane · entry 27022
صِيرٌ
A cleft, split, or crevice, especially a crevice in a door.
The door-related sense is a specialized physical use of the word for a narrow opening or split.
- Lane · entry 27022
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صِيرٌ
A condiment made from small salted fish, or the small fish from which it is made.
This item is reported as possibly non-Arabic or foreign in origin.
- Lane · entry 27022
صِيرٌ
The bishop or senior religious official of the Jews.
A specialized historical or institutional noun.
- Lane · entry 27022
صِيرَةٌ
An enclosure for sheep, goats, cattle, or other livestock.
The enclosure is constructed from wood, stones, or branches.
- Lane · entry 27023
صِيَارٌ
The stringed instrument called a ṣanj, or its sound.
The evidence records both the instrument and, according to one authority, the sound produced by it.
- Lane · entry 27024
صِيَارَةٌ
Stones or a mass of stones.
This entry is given as equivalent to a separate term for stones and related stone material.
- Lane · entry 27025
صَيِّرٌ
A grave.
The word is explained as an ultimate or final abode.
- Lane · entry 27026
صَيِّرٌ
A company, group, or gathering of people.
A collective noun for a group or company.
- Lane · entry 27026
صَيِّرَةٌ
A cased stone landmark or monument on a small isolated mountain or similar elevation.
The structure resembles a piled stone way-marker and may be rounded, broad, and partly excavated.
- Lane · entry 27027
صَائِرٌ
The pivot of a door, at its top or heel, turning in a socket.
A technical architectural term for a door's turning support.
- Lane · entry 27028
صَائِرَةٌ
Rain.
An independent nominal use.
- Lane · entry 27029
صَائِرَةٌ
Herbage, pasture, or grazing vegetation.
A landscape and pastoral use distinct from the related sense for rain.
- Lane · entry 27029
صَائِرَةٌ / صَيُّورٌ
Dry herbage or pasture, especially vegetation eaten long after it was green.
A specialized pastoral term for grass or herbs in a dry, aged condition.
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- Lane · entry 27030
صَيُّورٌ
Judgment, opinion, understanding, or intellect; especially a considered final judgment.
The word may refer either to mental discernment generally or to an opinion reached after deliberation.
- Lane · entry 27030
أُمُّ صَيُّورٍ
A confused or dubious affair through which there is no clear way to pass.
An idiomatic expression; its derivation is reported as uncertain.
- Lane · entry 27030
مَصِيرٌ
A place where people alight and abide.
A specialized place-name use, distinct from the general sense of eventual destination.
- Lane · entry 27032
مَصِيرٌ
A place toward which waters come or take their course; a place of pasture and water.
The plural is used for places of herbage or pasture and water.
- Lane · entry 27032
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The homographic مَصِيرٌ meaning an intestine belongs to the separate م ص ر entry in the supplied cross-reference context and is not assigned to this root.
The reported reading فَصُرْهُنَّ is preserved as variant-reading evidence under the classical cut/split branch, but it is not counted as a canonical QAC form because no corresponding QAC form group was supplied.
The fish-condiment sense is lexically recorded but is reported as possibly foreign or non-Arabic; the idiom أُمُّ صَيُّورٍ likewise has uncertain derivation.