Quran glossary · draft

عصر

fiery whirlwind

A violent rotating wind bearing fire that destroys a garden.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: عصر

Lemmas: إعصار

Forms: إِعْصَارٌ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

2:266

أَيَوَدُّ أَحَدُكُمْ أَن تَكُونَ لَهُۥ جَنَّةٌ مِّن نَّخِيلٍ وَأَعْنَابٍ تَجْرِى مِن تَحْتِهَا ٱلْأَنْهَٰرُ لَهُۥ فِيهَا مِن كُلِّ ٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ وَأَصَابَهُ ٱلْكِبَرُ وَلَهُۥ ذُرِّيَّةٌ ضُعَفَآءُ فَأَصَابَهَآ إِعْصَارٌ فِيهِ نَارٌ فَٱحْتَرَقَتْ كَذَٰلِكَ يُبَيِّنُ ٱللَّهُ لَكُمُ ٱلْـَٔايَٰتِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَفَكَّرُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

The two Form I contexts mutually identify pressing fruit for drink. إِعْصَار is a destructive wind phenomenon, مُعْصِرَات are the source from which abundant water descends, and the lone oath noun عَصْر denotes a period of time. The Quran supplies no explicit derivational bridge from those three nominal applications to fruit pressing, so each is conservatively isolated as a lexical collision.