Quranic root
سكت
s · k · t
The root denotes departure from speech: silence, cessation of speaking, and the resulting state of stillness.
From silence and cessation of speech, the lexical field extends to stilling or calming, including the Quranic use for anger subsiding, and to things that cause silence or specialized states and objects associated with being silent.
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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.
سَكَتَ
sakata
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
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- Quran occurrences
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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 subside or become stilled, of anger, so that it abates and departs from the person affected.
In the Quranic construction سَكَتَ عَنْهُ الغَضَبُ, anger is the subject and عَنْ identifies the person from whom it departs; this is an extended use from cessation of speech rather than ordinary human silence.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 7:154word 2
“was calmed”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 7:154سَكَتَwas calmed
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 29 Classical meanings
سَكَتَ
To be or become silent, mute, or speechless; to cease or stop speaking.
Used of one who refrains from speech or breaks off speaking. Some usage distinguishes intentional silence from silence caused by thought, disease, or fear.
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سَكَتَ
To become still, quiet, motionless, calm, or allayed.
An extended use from cessation of speech, applied to movement and other states.
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سَكَتَ
In the expression سَكَتَ الحَرُّ, for the heat to become intense while the wind is still.
A specialized conventional expression.
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سَكَتَ
In an extended use, to die.
A figurative or transferred Classical usage.
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سَكَتَ
Of a horse, to come tenth in a race, being last among the counted ten.
Said specifically of a horse in a race.
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سَاكَتَ
To keep silence with someone, or to vie with someone in silence.
A Form III reciprocal or interactive construction.
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أَسْكَتَ
To turn away and speak no more; to turn away from a thing.
A Form IV intransitive or constructional use.
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أَسْكَتَ
To make someone silent, mute, or speechless; to silence or hush a speaker, child, or disputant, or make someone abstain from speaking.
A Form IV causative construction, including causing a person to stop speaking.
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أُسْكِتَ
In an alternative Quranic reading of the anger passage, to be made still so that the anger departs from Moses.
This records the alternative Form IV reading without assigning it to the QAC-attested Form I occurrence.
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سَكْتٌ
A pause between two musical sounds or notes without breathing.
A technical musical use of the verbal noun.
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سَكْتَةٌ / سِكْتَةٌ
A single state or interval of silence, muteness, or speechlessness; a pause.
The two recorded nominal forms are explicitly connected in the lexical evidence.
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سَكْتَةٌ
In prayer, a silence or pause after the commencement, before the recitation of the Opening Chapter, and likewise after its recitation.
A conventional prayer usage.
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سَكْتَةٌ
A disease causing loss of speech and motion, namely apoplexy.
A medical and anatomical specialization of the noun.
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سُكْتَةٌ
A thing used to hush or quiet a child or another person; also food or other contents remaining in a bag or receptacle.
The same form is used both for a means of quieting and for a remainder of contents.
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سُكَاتٌ
Constant or continual silence.
A noun denoting sustained silence rather than a single pause.
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سُكَاتٌ
A thing, saying, act, anxiety, grief, or illness that silences a person or prevents speech.
Used of an affliction or cause whose result is enforced or prolonged silence.
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سُكَاتٌ
In the expression عَلَى سُكَاتِ الأَمْرِ, being at the point of accomplishing or attaining an affair.
An idiomatic construction concerning imminent attainment.
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سُكَاتٌ
In a figurative expression, a serpent that bites before its presence is known.
A figurative characterization of a serpent's concealed or noiseless attack.
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سَكُوتٌ
Of a she-camel, one that does not utter the cry called رُغَاء when the saddle is put upon her.
The animal-specific restriction is part of this lexical specialization.
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سُكَيْتٌ / سُكَّيْتٌ
The tenth and last counted horse in a race.
The variant forms are treated as names for the same racing position.
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سُكَيْتٌ
Figuratively, a person who is scrupulously exact, neat, and deliberate in his craft.
A transferred use from the deliberate last-place racing designation.
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سِكِّيتٌ
A person habitually or often silent, speaking little without inability to express himself, and speaking well when he does.
An intensive personal epithet for restrained but articulate speech.
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سَاكِتٌ
Silent; one who is silent.
An active-participial adjective derived from سَكَتَ.
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ٱسْكَاتٌ
The temperate days in the latter part of summer.
A specialized seasonal term.
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ٱسْكَاتٌ
Remains of anything.
A plural or collective use associated with the nominal field of remnants.
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ٱسْكَاتٌ
Sundry or scattered parties or classes of people; a mixed multitude or riffraff.
A plural or collective designation for miscellaneous groups.
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إِسْكَاتَةٌ
A short silence or pause after which speech, reading, or recitation resumes; also a lowering of the voice without absolute silence.
It is not a complete cessation of speaking or reciting, but a temporary pause or reduced vocalization.
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المُسَكَّتُ
The last of the arrows used in the game of maysir.
A specialized gaming term.
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المَسْكُوتُ عَنْهَا
In the expression الحِكْمَةُ المَسْكُوتُ عَنْهَا, the secrets of the science of the Divine Essence.
A specialized technical and esoteric expression meaning what is left unspoken.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The sole QAC-attested form is the Form I occurrence in the anger-subsiding construction at 7:154; ordinary silence is documented as a broader Classical meaning, not as the Quranic occurrence's primary sense.
The alternative Form IV reading discussed by Lane is preserved separately and is not counted as a QAC Form I form or occurrence.