Quranic root
قشعر
q · sh · ʿ · r
The supplied lexical evidence centers on quaking or shuddering that affects the skin, with related extensions to roughness and drying or contraction.
The bodily tremor sense is accompanied by usages for skin drying, the contraction and drought-marked appearance of earth, and a year becoming drought-stricken; related derived nouns and adjectives describe the tremor or a person experiencing it.
- Lane · entry 8372
- Lane · entry 8373
- Lane · entry 8374
- Lane · entry 8375
- Mufradāt · row 1181
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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.
إِقْشَعَرَّ
ʾiqshaʿarra
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- 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 shiver or shudder, with a tremor rising over the skin.
In the Quranic occurrence, it is used of the skins of those who fear their Lord; the supplied form is an imperfect active verb.
- Lane · entry 8372
- Mufradāt · row 1181
Selected Quran examples
Quran 39:23word 8
“Shiver”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 39:23تَقْشَعِرُّShiver
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 5 Classical meanings
قُشَعْرِيرَةٌ
A tremor, quaking, or quivering of the skin.
A noun for the tremor that seizes or overtakes the skin.
- Lane · entry 8373
إِقْشَعَرَّ
Of the skin, to dry up from mange or scab.
Used in a construction describing the skin as drying because of mange or scab.
- Lane · entry 8372
إِقْشَعَرَّ
Of the earth, to become dust- or ash-coloured and contract through drought; of a year, to become a year of drought.
The year usage is reported as a figurative or extended expression; the earth usage includes both the colour change and contraction caused by drought.
- Lane · entry 8372
قُشَاعِرٌ
Rough to the touch; in a reported usage, rough and advanced in years.
An adjectival description; the combination of roughness with advanced age is reported as an alternative usage.
- Lane · entry 8374
مُقْشَعِرٌّ
A person whose skin is quaking or shuddering.
An active participial adjective describing someone in the state of bodily shuddering; its plural is قَشَاعِرُ.
- Lane · entry 8375
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
No Maqāyīs entry was supplied; the root-level orientation is therefore limited to the supplied Lane and Mufradāt evidence.