Quranic root
فسح
f · s · ḥ
The root centers on spaciousness, expansion, and the provision of room or scope.
Its uses develop from physical spaciousness and widening into making room for others, mutual accommodation, latitude for action, and figurative expansion of the chest or field of vision.
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- Quran-attested forms
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- Quran senses
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- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
فَسَحَ
fasaḥa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 2 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.
To make room or give space to someone; to accommodate another by spreading out or withdrawing.
Used especially of making room in an assembly or sitting place, with لِـ marking the person accommodated. The construction can also express granting someone room or latitude, as in Allah’s making room for the believers.
- Lane · entry 34125
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 58:11word 10
“then make room”
Quran 58:11word 11
“Allah will make room”
تَفَسَّحَ
tafassaḥa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form V
- Form
- V
- 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 make room, spread out, or expand so that others have space.
Used of mutual or self-directed expansion in an assembly or sitting place; in the Quranic construction, people are told to make room for one another.
- Lane · entry 34125
- Mufradāt · row 1112
Selected Quran examples
Quran 58:11word 7
“Make room”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 3 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 17 Classical meanings
فَسُحَ
To be or become spacious, roomy, wide, or ample.
An intransitive Form I use, especially of a place.
- Lane · entry 34125
فَسْحٌ
Widening the spaces between steps or between successive needle punctures.
A noun of spacing or widening, including the spacing of punctures when sewing a water-skin.
- Lane · entry 34125
فَسْحٌ
A written pass or travel authorization.
A conventional administrative or travel document, compared with a jawāz.
- Lane · entry 34125
فَسَّحَ
To make a place spacious, roomy, wide, or ample.
Causative Form II usage, applied to a place rather than necessarily to a person being accommodated.
- Lane · entry 34126
تَفَسَّحَ
To range at large or expatiate; to have ample room or scope.
A broader Classical use of Form V beyond the Quranic assembly instruction.
- Lane · entry 34128
اِنْفَسَحَ مَرَاحُهُمْ
For the resting place of camels to become spacious, meaning that the camels have become numerous.
An idiomatic, figurative use associated with a camel resting place.
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- Lane · entry 34141
اِنْفَسَحَ صَدْرُهُ
For the bosom or chest to expand with joy.
Figurative Form VII usage describing inner elation or relief.
- Lane · entry 34130
اِنْفَسَحَ طَرْفُهُ
For the eye to have an unobstructed view, with nothing hindering distant sight.
A figurative Form VII construction concerning the range of vision.
- Lane · entry 34130
فُسْحَةٌ
Spaciousness, roominess, width, or ample scope.
Used especially of the ground, and also of having ample scope for action in an affair.
- Lane · entry 34134
الفُسْحَتَانِ
The two hairless spaces on either side of the hair growing immediately beneath the middle of the lower lip.
A specific anatomical plural expression.
- Lane · entry 34134
فَسِيحٌ
Spacious, roomy, wide, or ample.
An adjective applied to a place, including a sitting place or assembly.
- Lane · entry 34137
فَسِيحُ الصَّدْرِ
Broad-minded and free from distress or narrowness of mind.
A figurative adjective applied to a person.
- Lane · entry 34137
سَيْرٌ فَسِيحٌ
A pace or manner of travel in which the steps are wide.
A conventional description of broad-stepping movement.
- Lane · entry 34137
مَفْسُوحُ الضُّلُوعِ
Having ribs that are wide apart or broadly expanded.
A description specifically attested of a camel.
- Lane · entry 34138
مُتَفَسَّحٌ
Ample scope or a place in which one has room to act.
Used in the expression for having no ample scope in a matter.
- Lane · entry 34139
مُنْفَسَحٌ وَادٍ
An expanded or opening place in a valley.
A nominal description of the place where a valley broadens.
- Lane · entry 34140
فُسْحُمٌ
The glans of the penis.
An anatomical noun recorded as a distinct lexical use.
- Lane · entry 34135
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Form I public headword is normalized to فَسَحَ for the Quranic make-room construction; the Lane entry فَسُحَ records the distinct intransitive sense of becoming spacious.
Lane’s printed Quran citation in this discussion uses historical notation and has not been converted into an independent modern verse reference.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
Lane records the expression فُلَانٌ ٱبْنُ فُسْحُمٍ but explicitly states that its meaning is unknown, so it is not assigned a dictionary definition.