Quranic root
كشط
k · sh · ṭ
A semantic orientation toward moving something aside or removing it so that what it covered is exposed.
The attested uses extend from physically stripping a hide or covering, to removing something from its place, clearing or dispersing what has been removed, and figuratively describing fear as having gone away.
- Maqāyīs · row 3992
- Mufradāt · row 1250
- Lane · entry 28273
- Lane · entry 28274
- Lane · entry 28275
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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.
كَشَطَ
kashaṭa
- 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 strip away or remove a covering or outer layer from what it covers; in the Quranic use, the heaven is stripped away or removed from its place.
The Quranic occurrence is passive and applies the image of removing a roof-like covering to the heaven. It is also interpreted as the heaven being pulled off and folded together.
- Lane · entry 28273
- Mufradāt · row 1250
Selected Quran examples
Quran 81:11word 3
“is stripped away”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 81:11كُشِطَتْis stripped away
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 9 Classical meanings
كَشَطَ الحَرْفَ
To remove a letter from its place.
A cited conventional construction concerning the alteration or removal of a written letter.
- Lane · entry 28273
كَشَطَ البَعِيرَ
To skin a camel by removing its hide.
A specialized camel-skinning usage; the evidence explicitly distinguishes it from the ordinary verb سَلَخَ in this context.
- Lane · entry 28273
كُشِطَ رَوْعُهُ / اِنْكَشَطَ رَوْعُهُ
For one's fright or fear to be removed or go away.
A figurative passive or intransitive construction describing the departure of fear.
- Lane · entry 28273
- Mufradāt · row 1250
تَكشَّطَ
For clouds to become disunited and disperse in the sky.
Form V intransitive usage, with clouds as the subject.
- Lane · entry 28274
اِنْكَشَطَ
To become removed or cleared away, as dust carried off by the wind.
Form VII intransitive usage describing material being cleared or blown away.
- Lane · entry 28275
كِشَاطٌ
The stripped skin or hide of a slaughtered camel.
A noun for the removed hide.
- Lane · entry 28278
كَاشِطٌ
A slaughterer or skinner of camels.
An occupational noun associated with slaughtering or removing the hide from camels.
- Lane · entry 28280
كَشَطَةٌ / كَاشِطُونَ
Owners of a skinned camel.
Plural designations reported for people associated with a skinned camel, distinct from the occupational sense of كَاشِطٌ.
- Lane · entry 28280
مَكْشُوطَةٌ
A slaughtered camel whose skin has been removed.
A passive-participial description of the camel in that state.
- Lane · entry 28281
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The sole Quran occurrence is the passive feminine form كُشِطَتْ; the public headword is normalized to the Form I perfect كَشَطَ.