Quranic root
سنم
s · n · m
The root denotes elevation, height, and rising above, concretely represented by the hump or highest part of a camel.
The attested lexical network extends from the camel's hump and highest part to rising, making things raised or heaped, mounting, and other derived elevations. In the Quranic noun Tasnīm, the elevation motif is associated with a Paradise water source coming from above.
- Maqāyīs · row 2505
- Lane · entry 42425
- Lane · entry 42427
- Lane · entry 42431
- Lane · entry 42434
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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.
تَسْنِيمٌ
tasnīmun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- 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 fountain or source of water in Paradise, coming from above or flowing over elevated chambers.
A Quranic name for the Paradise water mentioned in the passage about the drink of those brought near; the word is treated here according to its Quranic nominal use rather than merely as a verbal noun.
- Lane · entry 42434
- Mufradāt · row 729
Selected Quran examples
Quran 83:27word 3
“Tasneem”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 83:27تَسْنِيمٍTasneem
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 21 Classical meanings
سَنِمَ
To become large in the hump, said of a camel.
A Form I verb describing growth or enlargement of the camel's hump; variant voice discussions are grammatical rather than separate meanings.
- Lane · entry 42424
سَنَّمَ
To make large, raised, rounded, or heaped like a hump; to fatten a camel, raise a grave into a gibbous form, or heap material above a vessel.
A Form II causative construction, applied both to enlargement of a camel and to making an object visibly hump-shaped or elevated.
- Lane · entry 42425
أَسْنَمَ
To rise high; of a fire, to become large or have a high flame.
A Form IV usage recorded for smoke and fire.
- Lane · entry 42426
تَسَنَّمَ
To mount, ascend, or get upon something, including a camel's hump, a wall, or an animal.
A Form V construction of mounting or ascending onto an object or animal.
- Lane · entry 42427
تَسَنَّمَ
To mount sexually or copulate.
A conventional mating construction, distinct from ordinary mounting or ascending.
- Lane · entry 42427
تَسَنَّمَ
For hoariness to become abundant and spread.
Used of the spread or increase of grayness.
- Lane · entry 42427
تَسَنَّمَ
For clouds to rain copiously upon the land.
A Form V usage describing abundant rainfall.
- Lane · entry 42427
التَّسَنُّمُ
Sudden or unexpected taking or seizure.
A verbal-noun usage for seizing something by surprise.
- Lane · entry 42427
سَنِمٌ
Having a large hump, especially a camel with a large hump.
An adjectival description of a camel; the feminine form is recorded separately in the lexical evidence.
- Lane · entry 42429
سَنِمٌ
A tall plant whose head or blossom has emerged prominently.
A botanical usage referring to the plant's projecting head or blossom.
- Lane · entry 42429
سَنِمَةٌ
A barren tree whose extremities have dried up and become altered.
A botanical usage preserved under the feminine form cited within the lexical discussion.
- Lane · entry 42429
سَنِمٌ
Rising high and appearing upon the surface of the earth, said of water.
A descriptive usage specifically recorded for water rising to the surface.
- Lane · entry 42429
سَنَمَةٌ
The blossom, head, or upper growth of certain plants.
A botanical noun for a plant head or soft upper produce, including the heads or extremities of several named grasses and plants.
- Lane · entry 42430
سَنَامٌ
The hump, or highest part of the back, of a camel; by extension, the highest, elevated, or best part of something.
The literal camel sense extends to elevated parts of sand or land, the raised middle of a sandal, the highest parts of a fire, and the highest rank in glory.
- Lane · entry 42431
سَنَامُ النَّاقَةِ
A star in the constellation of Cassiopeia.
A conventional astronomical name recorded as an assumed figurative extension of the camel-hump sense.
- Lane · entry 42431
السُّنَّمُ
An ox or cow; according to one report, a wild cow.
A nominal animal designation with a reported narrower interpretation in one authority.
- Lane · entry 42432
إِسْنَامٌ
The fruit or produce of the ḥalī; also a certain herb or species of tree.
A botanical noun, with the herb or tree sense treated as an attested lexical extension rather than a Quranic usage.
- Lane · entry 42433
أَرْضٌ مُسْنِمَةٌ
Land that produces the plant called إِسْنَامَة.
An adjectival phrase describing land by its capacity to produce that botanical growth.
- Lane · entry 42435
مُسَنَّمٌ
A camel left unridden, so that its hump has become large.
A passive-participial description of a camel whose hump has enlarged through being left unused.
- Lane · entry 42436
قَبْرٌ مُسَنَّمٌ
An elevated or gibbous grave.
A conventional adjectival construction derived from the form of a hump.
- Lane · entry 42436
مَجْدٌ مُسَنَّمٌ
Great or exalted glory.
A figurative construction applying elevation to status or renown.
- Lane · entry 42436
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Lane citation to the Quran as lxxxiii. 27 is reported here as 83:27 only because QAC independently supplies the secure word location 83:27:3.