Quranic root
دسس
d · s · s
The root denotes putting something beneath or within another thing while keeping it hidden or secret.
This orientation appears in burial and concealed insertion, then extends to self-concealment, covert approach, spying, and related specialized camel usages involving hidden or localized treatment.
- Maqāyīs · row 1750
- Lane · entry 646
- Lane · entry 648
- Lane · entry 650
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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.
دَسَّ
dassa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
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- 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 hide or put something into earth, dust, or beneath another thing; to bury or thrust it in.
The Quranic occurrence describes burying a female child in dust. The lexical range includes concealed insertion and, in one reported explanation, forcible or forceful thrusting.
- Lane · entry 646
- Mufradāt · row 470
Selected Quran examples
Quran 16:59word 13
“bury it”
To conceal, obscure, or debase the soul.
In the Quranic soul-object construction, this is interpreted as hiding the soul from notice, diminishing it through evil works or neglected obedience, or placing it among the righteous despite not belonging to them. The supplied evidence gives no secure QAC word location for this cited construction.
- Lane · entry 646
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 16:59يَدُسُّهُۥbury it
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 13 Classical meanings
دَسَّ
To apply tar to a camel only on the armpits, inner roots of the thighs, or similar parts.
A specialized camel-treatment usage, explicitly described as incomplete or localized anointing.
- Lane · entry 646
دَسَّ
Of a camel, to become swollen in the parts called the masāʿir.
A separately reported interpretation of the specialized expression دَسَّ البَعِيرَ.
- Lane · entry 646
دَسَّ
Of a camel, to have a slight case of mange.
Explained as a light, concealed condition of the body.
- Maqāyīs · row 1750
دَسٌّ
Tar used to anoint specified parts of camels.
A specialized noun for the tar applied to the armpits, inner thigh-roots, or comparable parts.
- Lane · entry 649
اِنْدَسَّ
To become hidden or buried, or to conceal or insert oneself beneath something.
The reflexive or intransitive counterpart of hidden insertion, including becoming buried or putting oneself beneath another thing.
- Lane · entry 648
اِنْدَسَّ
To approach someone secretly in order to bring calumnies or hostile reports.
A figurative social usage involving covert approach and the delivery of slander.
- Lane · entry 648
دَسِيسٌ
The concealment of guile or artifice.
A noun describing hidden cunning or a concealed scheme.
- Lane · entry 650
دَسِيسٌ
A person secretly sent to obtain and report information; a spy.
The term may denote one whom a group sends covertly to investigate and bring back news.
- Lane · entry 650
دُسُسٌ
Hypocritical people who enter among Quran reciters despite not being of them.
A specialized plural usage for covert or deceptive entrants among a religious group.
- Lane · entry 650
دَسِيسَةٌ
A secret approach or machination, especially one involving covertly bringing calumnies to someone.
The term is also used for a secret scheme or similar concealed maneuver.
- Lane · entry 651
دَسَّاسٌ
One who enters frequently; figuratively, a disposition or inherited trait that quietly enters and acts in a person.
The figurative usage occurs in the saying that a natural disposition enters and affects the person in whom it is engendered.
- Lane · entry 652
مَدْسُوسٌ
Of a camel, treated with tar on the specified body parts.
A passive participial description of a camel subjected to the specialized localized tar treatment.
- Lane · entry 654
دَسَّاسَةٌ
A snake that remains beneath earth or dust.
A lexical derivative associated with something concealed under the ground.
- Maqāyīs · row 1750
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic soul-object usage has several reported interpretations, including concealment, debasement, and illicit insertion among the righteous; these are presented as one constructional sense rather than as a single fixed English equivalent.
The historical Quran citation attached to that soul-object discussion is not converted into a modern verse location because the supplied QAC occurrence list does not independently provide one.