Quranic root
بسر
b · s · r
The root centers on freshness or immaturity—being before a thing has reached its proper stage—and also carries a separate orientation of stillness or restricted movement.
From the idea of freshness and being before ripeness, the lexicon develops usages for premature action, seeking, or treatment. A related branch describes a contracted or fixed facial expression, including frowning and stern dislike.
- Maqāyīs · row 760
- Mufradāt · row 121
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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.
بَسَرَ
basara
- 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 frown, scowl, or contract the face.
In the Quranic occurrence, the frown is displayed before its proper time or in an inappropriate situation, conveying an inopportune or deliberate expression of displeasure.
- Lane · entry 36343
- Mufradāt · row 121
Selected Quran examples
Quran 74:22word 3
“and scowled”
بَاسِرٌ
bāsirun
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- 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.
Frowning, contracted in expression, and showing stern dislike or aversion.
The Quran uses the feminine form بَاسِرَةٌ in the construction وَوُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ بَاسِرَةٌ for faces marked by this expression. Its temporal nuance is associated with a state anticipating what will befall them before the final outcome.
- Lane · entry 36354
- Mufradāt · row 121
Selected Quran examples
Quran 75:24word 3
“(will be) distorted”
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 23 Classical meanings
بَسَرَ
To take or use something while it is fresh, juicy, moist, or still firm; specifically, to pasture animals on fresh herbage.
A Form I verbal usage concerning the freshness or lack of flaccidity of the thing used.
- Lane · entry 36343
بَسَرَ
To hasten, undertake, seek, or demand something before its proper time, or in an improper place or manner.
Constructions include requiring a debt before it is due, drinking milk before it thickens, and breaking or opening a pustule before it ripens.
- Lane · entry 36343
بَسَرَ
To mate with, deflower, or fertilize before the female or organism is ready.
Applied to a stallion covering a female before the onset of desire, to defloration before puberty, and to fertilizing a palm before the proper time.
- Lane · entry 36343
بَسَرَ
To dig for or seek water when it is scarce.
This includes digging a well in the dry bed of a river.
- Lane · entry 36343
بَسَرَ
To begin a thing or begin with it.
The verb may be construed with the thing introduced or begun.
- Lane · entry 36343
بَسَرَ
To mix unripe dates with other dates in a fermented or prepared date beverage.
The usage concerns making the beverage by combining full-grown unripe dates with ripe or dry dates, or mixing them into a preparation made from dry dates.
- Lane · entry 36343
بَاسَرَ
Of a mare, to desire the stallion when sexual excitement has only just begun.
The construction describes desire before the mare is fully aroused.
- Lane · entry 36345
أَبْسَرَ
To dig into ground that has not previously been dug.
A derived Form IV usage concerning newly opened or untouched ground.
- Lane · entry 36346
أَبْسَرَ
Of palm trees, to bear dates that remain in the full-grown unripe stage or fail to ripen.
An intransitive usage describing the state or production of the palm.
- Lane · entry 36346
تَبَسَّرَ
To seek recently produced fresh water or to dig for plants before they emerge.
The usage concerns newly available water after rain and plants still below the surface.
- Lane · entry 36347
تَبَسَّرَ
Of a wild bull, to reach the roots of dry plants and eat them.
A specialized Form V usage describing feeding at the roots of dried vegetation.
- Lane · entry 36347
اِبْتَسَرَ
For a color to change and become like the color of full-grown unripe dates.
The usage is applied to a person's or thing's color.
- Lane · entry 36348
بُسْرٌ
Fresh, juicy, moist, or firm material; especially fresh herbage that has just risen from the ground and is not yet tall.
The feminine form بُسْرَةٌ may be used for a single instance or for a corresponding feminine description.
- Lane · entry 36350
بُسْرٌ
Fresh water recently produced by rain.
A variant may denote cold or cool water; the plural of the rain-fresh water sense is بِسَارٌ.
- Lane · entry 36350
بُسْرٌ
A young, youthful, or fresh person.
The term can describe a male or female, including a boy or girl, without restricting the meaning to one gender.
- Lane · entry 36350
بُسْرَةٌ
The sun just after rising, while red and not yet clear.
A feminine noun describing the early appearance of the sun.
- Lane · entry 36350
بُسْرٌ
Full-grown but unripe dates that have begun to take on color before becoming ripe.
The term covers dates in the stage between green growth and ripeness; the related singular is بُسْرَةٌ or بُسُرَةٌ.
- Lane · entry 36350
بُسْرَةٌ
The head or extremity of a dog's penis.
A specialized anatomical usage.
- Lane · entry 36350
بُسْرَةٌ
A kind of bead.
A specialized object noun, synonymous with خَرَزَةٌ.
- Lane · entry 36350
بَاسُورٌ
A swelling or tumor associated especially with hemorrhoids or piles.
The term may also denote analogous swellings in other bodily locations; the source records a variant pronunciation with ص.
- Lane · entry 36355
مِبْسَارٌ
A palm tree whose dates do not ripen.
Used in the phrase نَخْلَةٌ مِبْسَارٌ, with the adjective functioning as a possessive-style epithet.
- Lane · entry 36357
مَبْسُورٌ
Affected by the disease called بَوَاسِير, hemorrhoids or piles.
A passive participial adjective describing a person afflicted by that disease.
- Lane · entry 36358
مُبَاسَرَةٌ
A mare's desire for the stallion at the beginning of sexual excitement.
The noun denotes desire before the mare is fully aroused.
- Lane · entry 36359
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The public nominal headword is normalized to the masculine active-participial citation form بَاسِرٌ; the Quranic occurrence itself is the feminine form بَاسِرَةٌ.
The Form IV Lane entry is transmitted with the headword ايسر in the packet, while its lexical unit reads ابسر النخل; it is normalized here as أَبْسَرَ based on the unit text.