Quranic root
كسل
k · s · l
The root centers on heaviness and sluggishness that make one refrain from an action or fail to complete it.
This core develops into ordinary laziness and indolence, causative rendering of someone heavy or sluggish, and a specialized sexual usage denoting penetration without emission.
- Maqāyīs · row 3987
- Mufradāt · row 1249
- Lane · entry 32858
- Lane · entry 32859
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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.
كَسْلَانٌ
kaslānun
- Part of speech
- Adjective · Quranic plural كُسَالَىٰ
- 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.
Lazy, sluggish, or lacking active willingness in performing an action.
The Quranic form is the plural كُسَالَىٰ, used of people who come to or stand for prayer in a sluggish, unenergetic manner.
- Mufradāt · row 1249
- Lane · entry 32860
Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:142word 12
“lazily”
Quran 9:54word 17
“(are) lazy”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 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 2 Classical meanings
كَسَّلَ
To make someone heavy, sluggish, lazy, indolent, or torpid.
Form II; the supplied lexical evidence specifically describes the effect of satiety.
- Lane · entry 32858
أَكْسَلَ
To penetrate sexually without emitting.
A specialized Form IV construction, supplied with عَنْهَا in the expression أَكْسَلَ عَنْهَا.
- Lane · entry 32859