وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذَا عَسْعَسَ
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.
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.