Quranic root
فصم
f · ṣ · m
A crack or rupture in something without its parts necessarily becoming separate.
The root centers on fissuring without complete separation, with derived uses extending to breaking off or severance, cessation, the opening of a gap, and descriptions of cracked objects.
- Maqāyīs · row 3599
- Lane · entry 34344
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- Lane · entry 34348
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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.
اِنْفِصَام
āinfiṣām
- Part of speech
- Verbal noun
- 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.
Breaking off, severance, or being cut off.
Attested in the construction لَا ٱنفِصَامَ لَهَا, denying that the referent will break or become severed.
- Lane · entry 34348
Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:256word 20
“(will) break”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:256ٱنفِصَامَ(will) break
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 6 Classical meanings
فَصَمَ، اِنْفَصَمَ، فَصْمَةٌ، أَفْصَمُ، مَفْصُومٌ
To crack or fissure something, or to become cracked, without complete separation; related forms denote a crack in a wall or an object that is cracked or much cracked.
The transitive and intransitive forms describe cracking while the parts remain joined; the adjectival and nominal forms describe cracked or fissured objects.
- Lane · entry 34344
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- Lane · entry 34350
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فُصِمَ
To become thrown down or demolished.
Said of a house, a tent, or the side of a house or tent.
- Lane · entry 34344
أَفْصَمَ
To cease, pass away, or leave.
Said of rain ceasing, fever leaving someone, or a disease passing away; it may also occur in the expression of a disease that does not pass away.
- Lane · entry 34346
أَفْصَمَ
To cease or abstain from covering.
Used of a stallion camel.
- Lane · entry 34346
اِنْفَصَمَ
To open so as to form an interstice or gap.
A distinct intransitive construction describing the formation of a gap.
- Lane · entry 34348
فَصِيمٌ
A large hoe, adze, or similar implement.
A technical or dialectal nominal usage.
- Lane · entry 34351
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Lane Quran citation is historical; the modern location 2:256:20 is used from the supplied QAC occurrence, not reconstructed from the printed citation.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
lane-unit:fSm:34344:g1:sub4 states that وَصْمٌ signifies a thing's being cracked, but its lexical identity and assignment to فصم are unclear.
lane-unit:fSm:34349:g1:main gives a fragment-of-a-tooth-cleaning-stick sense but explicitly suggests that the form is a mistranscription for قَصْم; it is therefore not assigned confidently to this root.