Quran glossary · draft

عصر

rain-bearing clouds

Cloud masses bearing and releasing abundant rainwater.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: عصر

Lemmas: معصرة

Forms: مُعْصِرَٰتِ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

78:14

وَأَنزَلْنَا مِنَ ٱلْمُعْصِرَٰتِ مَآءً ثَجَّاجًا

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.