Root

ع-ص-ر

ʿṣr·3-s9-r

5 occurrences5 verses4 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
يَعْصِرُyaʿṣiru2
إِعْصارiʿṣār1
مُعْصِرَةmuʿṣirah1
عَصْرʿaṣr1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ع-ص-ر

The same words as the table above, grouped by the wazn they are built on. Form assignment and counts are read from the morphology; what each form means is classical grammar — a tendency, not a rule, so a given word may sit outside its form’s usual sense.

  1. Form Iفَعَلَ2×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • يَعْصِرُyaʿṣiru2
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ2×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • إِعْصارiʿṣār1
    • مُعْصِرَةmuʿṣirah1

Covers 4 of this root’s 5 occurrences — the rest are nouns, participles and particles the morphology assigns no verb form.

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with ع-ص-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ع-ص-ر falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ع-ص-ر occurs on it. Counted, not interpreted — a bright page is where the word is dense, which is a fact about vocabulary and not a claim about what the page teaches.

lessmoreon 5 of 604 pages (1%)

Densest in juzʾ 12 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 340 pages — pages 242581, juzʾ 1329.

Occurrences · 5 in mushaf order

Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, with morphology from the Quranic Arabic Corpus. How we count →

Questions

How many times does the root ع-ص-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ع-ص-ر (ʿṣr) occurs 5 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 5 distinct verses. Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, using the Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology. “Occurrences” counts every word token derived from the root — a root appearing twice in one verse counts twice — which is why it exceeds the verse count.

In how many verses does ع-ص-ر occur?

5 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ع-ص-ر (ʿṣr), out of 5 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ع-ص-ر?

ع-ص-ر (ʿṣr) yields 4 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently يَعْصِرُ (yaʿṣiru, 2×), إِعْصار (iʿṣār, 1×), مُعْصِرَة (muʿṣirah, 1×), and عَصْر (ʿaṣr, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.