Quran glossary · draft

صعر

turn away contemptuously

To turn one's cheek away from people in contempt.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: صعر

Lemmas: تصعر

Forms: تُصَعِّرْ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

31:18

وَلَا تُصَعِّرْ خَدَّكَ لِلنَّاسِ وَلَا تَمْشِ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ مَرَحًا إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يُحِبُّ كُلَّ مُخْتَالٍ فَخُورٍ

Why this meaning was chosen

The sole form II jussive takes one's cheek as object and people as the relational complement. Its prohibition is paired with a ban on exultant walking and a condemnation of arrogance, directly supplying the contemptuous social posture.