Quranic root
وسن
w · s · n
The root principally concerns drowsiness, slumber, and a sleep-like lapse of awareness; it also preserves a separate idiomatic line concerning the abandonment of an affair.
The evidence connects the sleep-related branch with drowsiness, sleeping states, being overcome, and a sleep-associated sexual approach, while separately recording an idiom for not pursuing or making an affair one's concern.
- Maqāyīs · row 5111
- Mufradāt · row 1578
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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.
سِنَة
sinah
- 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.
Drowsiness, a brief doze, or a sleep-like lapse of awareness.
Quranically attested in the negated construction لا تَأْخُذُهُ سِنَةٌ وَلا نَوْمٌ, which denies even drowsiness or a brief lapse as well as full sleep.
- Mufradāt · row 1578
Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:255word 10
“slumber”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:255سِنَةٌۭslumber
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 3 Classical meanings
تَوَسَّنَ
To approach sexually or have sexual intercourse with a sleeping partner.
A specialized derived-verb construction, reported in the expression تَوَسَّنَهَا where the partner is asleep.
- Mufradāt · row 1578
- Maqāyīs · row 5111
وَسِنَ، أَسِنَ
To be overcome or lose consciousness from the air or vapors of a well.
This is reported as an alternate or qualified Classical usage, distinct from ordinary drowsiness.
- Mufradāt · row 1578
وَسَنًا
In the expression لا يَكُونَنَّ لَكَ وَسَنًا, an affair made one's concern or pursuit; the idiom means to leave the matter and not seek it.
Conventional idiomatic usage concerning the abandonment of an affair, not the sleep-related noun sense.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The well-related unconsciousness sense is explicitly presented as a reported and qualified usage, so it is retained as Classical evidence rather than assigned to the Quranic noun.
No Lane primary source units were supplied for this root; the form-level Quranic sense is supported by the supplied Mufradat evidence.