Quran glossary · draft

عَسْعَسَ

night recede toward dawn

For the night to withdraw in the temporal transition immediately paired with morning beginning to breathe forth.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1

Roots: عسعس

Lemmas: عسعس

Forms: عَسْعَسَ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

81:17

وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذَا عَسْعَسَ

Where other meanings fail

breathed forth

81:17

وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذَا عَسْعَسَ

Alternative: by the night when it breathed forth, and the morning when it breathed forth

Research rendering: by the night when it receded, and the morning when it breathed forth

The substitution erases the deliberate contrast between the night predicate and the separately expressed morning predicate.