Quran glossary · draft

عِشَاء

nightfall

The noun marks the darker onset of night and the named prayer situated in that period.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: عشو

Lemmas: عشاء

Forms: عِشَآءً · عِشَآءِ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

12:16

وَجَآءُوٓ أَبَاهُمْ عِشَآءً يَبْكُونَ

24:58

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ لِيَسْتَـْٔذِنكُمُ ٱلَّذِينَ مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَٰنُكُمْ وَٱلَّذِينَ لَمْ يَبْلُغُوا۟ ٱلْحُلُمَ مِنكُمْ ثَلَٰثَ مَرَّٰتٍ مِّن قَبْلِ صَلَوٰةِ ٱلْفَجْرِ وَحِينَ تَضَعُونَ ثِيَابَكُم مِّنَ ٱلظَّهِيرَةِ وَمِنۢ بَعْدِ صَلَوٰةِ ٱلْعِشَآءِ ثَلَٰثُ عَوْرَٰتٍ لَّكُمْ لَيْسَ عَلَيْكُمْ وَلَا عَلَيْهِمْ جُنَاحٌۢ بَعْدَهُنَّ طَوَّٰفُونَ عَلَيْكُم بَعْضُكُمْ عَلَىٰ بَعْضٍ كَذَٰلِكَ يُبَيِّنُ ٱللَّهُ لَكُمُ ٱلْـَٔايَٰتِ وَٱللَّهُ عَلِيمٌ حَكِيمٌ

Why this meaning was chosen

All 14 family occurrences were reviewed on one bounded page; all are frozen targets, with no protected records or compacted candidates. Ten عَشِيّ tokens mark evening in recurrent morning-evening pairs; two عِشَاء tokens mark nightfall and the prayer situated there; عَشِيَّة names a single evening span; and the lone Form-I verb presents a person as turning a blind eye away from remembrance. Case, definiteness, temporal adverbial force, governing preposition, and verbal mood compose locally. The reduced-visibility image connects the temporal and attentional uses without Quran-internal contradiction. No recitation-sensitive, collision, or unresolved issue remains.