Quranic root
نسك
n · s · k
Worshipful devotion and drawing near to God, expressed through devotional acts and offerings.
The lexical network extends this orientation to the worshipper, prescribed ritual acts and their stations—especially in pilgrimage—and the sacrificial offering. Classical evidence also attests worship as a transitive action and deliberate devotion.
- Maqāyīs · row 4624
- Mufradāt · row 1438
- Lane · entry 32210
- Lane · entry 32212
- Lane · entry 32214
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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.
مَنْسَك
mansak
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 4 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.
An appointed rite or act of worship; collectively, the rites and ceremonies of pilgrimage.
Used for prescribed religious observances, whether a single rite or the collective rites of a community or pilgrimage.
- Mufradāt · row 1438
- Lane · entry 32214
Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:128word 11
“our ways of worship”
Quran 2:200word 3
“your acts of worship”
Quran 22:34word 4
“a rite”
Quran 22:67word 4
“rite(s)”
An appointed station or setting in which a rite of worship is performed.
The Quran-focused lexical description encompasses both the stations or settings of worship and the acts performed there; the supplied contextual renderings emphasize the acts and rites.
- Mufradāt · row 1438
- Lane · entry 32214
نَاسِك
nāsik
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- 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 worshipper or devotee, especially one engaged in prescribed devotional or pilgrimage rites.
The supplied Quran occurrence is the plural active participle نَاسِكُوهُ, denoting those who perform the appointed rite referred to by the attached pronoun.
- Mufradāt · row 1438
- Lane · entry 32212
Selected Quran examples
Quran 22:67word 6
“perform it”
نُسُك
nusuk
- Part of speech
- Noun
- 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.
Worship or a devotional observance offered to God.
A broad religious use referring to an act or practice of worship.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 6:162word 4
“and my rites of sacrifice”
A sacrificial offering or sacrificial rite performed as an act of devotion.
In sacrificial contexts, the noun denotes the offering or rite of slaughter; it may also frame sacrificial observance as part of one's worship.
- Mufradāt · row 1438
Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:196word 33
“sacrifice”
Quran 6:162word 4
“and my rites of sacrifice”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:128مَنَاسِكَنَاour ways of worship
- 2:196نُسُكٍۢ ۚsacrifice
- 2:200مَّنَـٰسِكَكُمْyour acts of worship
- 6:162وَنُسُكِىand my rites of sacrifice
- 22:34مَنسَكًۭاa rite
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 4 Classical meanings
نَسَكَ
To worship; to practice worship in a transitive construction.
A Classical Form I verbal use explicitly described as transitive.
- Lane · entry 32210
أَنْسَكَ
To wash and purify a garment.
This usage is reported with an evidential qualification in the supplied lexical source.
- Lane · entry 32211
تَنَسَّكَ
To devote oneself to religious exercises, apply oneself to devotion, or become a worshipper.
A Classical Form V devotional use, including the resulting state of becoming a نَاسِك.
- Lane · entry 32212
نَسِيكَة
A sacrificial animal or offering slaughtered as a devotional act.
The noun is specialized to the slaughtered sacrificial victim in the supplied lexical discussion.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The QAC grouping places the singular مَنْسَك and plural مَنَاسِك forms under one public noun entry.
The station or place component is supported by the Quran-focused lexical description together with the Classical definition, while the supplied contextual glosses primarily render the Quranic occurrences as rites.
The root source reports, with reservation, an alternative claim that مَنْسَك can mean a place one frequents; that disputed claim is not adopted as an established meaning.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
Maqayis reports a disputed alternative meaning for مَنْسَك, namely a place one frequents, but immediately expresses reservations about it; it is therefore preserved as unresolved rather than presented as an established sense.