Quran glossary · draft

عصر

passing time

The passing span of time invoked as witness to the human condition.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: عصر

Lemmas: عصر

Forms: عَصْرِ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

103:1

وَٱلْعَصْرِ

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.