Quranic root
غصص
gh · ṣ · ṣ
Constriction or obstruction in the throat, especially from food.
The physical image of food obstructing the throat extends in Classical usage to choking by liquid, wrath, or spittle, to grief, crowding, and the agonies of death; Form IV expresses causation.
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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.
غُصَّة
ghuṣṣah
- Part of speech
- 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.
A thing lodged in the throat and causing choking; choking food.
In the Quranic expression ذَا غُصَّةٍ, describing food that sticks fast in the throat and is difficult to swallow.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 73:13word 3
“chokes”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 73:13غُصَّةٍۢchokes
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 14 Classical meanings
غَصَّ
For the throat or fauces to become choked or obstructed by food or liquid.
An intransitive Form I usage; the obstructing substance may be expressed with بِ, as with food or water.
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غَصَّ
To die.
In the idiom غَصَّ بِرِيقِهِ, literally describing choking by one's spittle.
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غَصَّ
To become choked with wrath or rage.
Extended usage with بِالغَيْظِ as the accompanying expression.
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غَصَّ
To become grieved or disquieted in mind.
Reported as an extended usage, including usage without an added object or cause.
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غَصَّ
For land or a place to become straitened or crowded, as though choked up by its occupants.
Used with land, a sitting-place, or another place that is made crowded by those in it.
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أَغَصَّ
To cause someone's throat or fauces to become choked or obstructed by food or liquid.
Causative/transitive Form IV; the affected person or throat may be construed as the object, with the obstructing substance understood or expressed.
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أَغَصَّ
To cause someone to become choked with wrath or rage.
Extended causative usage with بِالغَيْظِ.
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أَغَصَّ
To cause someone to become grieved or disquieted in mind.
Extended causative usage, including the idiom غَصَّهُ بِرِيقِهِ.
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أَغَصَّ
To make land or a place straitened or cramped for someone.
Extended causative construction with the land or place made narrow or crowded.
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غُصَّة
Choking wrath or rage.
Extended nominal usage.
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غُصَّة
Grief or disquietude of mind.
Extended nominal usage associated with the sense of being inwardly choked or distressed.
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غُصَّة
The chokings or strangulations of death; the death-rattles or agonies of death.
Extended plural or collective usage in the expression غُصَصُ المَوْتِ.
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غَاصّ
One whose throat or fauces is choked or obstructed by food.
Active-participial description of a person experiencing the physical obstruction.
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غَاصّ
A place filled with people, as though choked up by them.
Applied to an abode, place of alighting, or mosque crowded with people.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The extended senses involving wrath, grief, crowding, and death are Classical usages; the supplied Quranic evidence directly attests the physical choking sense only.