Quran glossary · draft

عصر

press out liquid

Applying pressure to fruit so its liquid can be used as drink.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: عصر

Lemmas: يعصر

Forms: أَعْصِرُ · يَعْصِرُ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

12:36

وَدَخَلَ مَعَهُ ٱلسِّجْنَ فَتَيَانِ قَالَ أَحَدُهُمَآ إِنِّىٓ أَرَىٰنِىٓ أَعْصِرُ خَمْرًا وَقَالَ ٱلْـَٔاخَرُ إِنِّىٓ أَرَىٰنِىٓ أَحْمِلُ فَوْقَ رَأْسِى خُبْزًا تَأْكُلُ ٱلطَّيْرُ مِنْهُ نَبِّئْنَا بِتَأْوِيلِهِۦٓ إِنَّا نَرَىٰكَ مِنَ ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ

12:49

ثُمَّ يَأْتِى مِنۢ بَعْدِ ذَٰلِكَ عَامٌ فِيهِ يُغَاثُ ٱلنَّاسُ وَفِيهِ يَعْصِرُونَ

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.