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Arabic root

ا-ش-ر

Alif-Shin-Ra

2 words from this root family

About this root

Alif-Shin-Ra (ا-ش-ر) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: taʾshīra (visa), muʾashshir (indicator / index).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 2 times in 2 verses, across 1 of the 114 suras. The first is in 54:25.

Themes: Travel, Documents, Academic Formal

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
تَأْشيرة
taʾshīra
visanoun, A2Road & Driving
مُؤَشِّر
muʾashshir
indicator / indexnoun, B2Logic & Arguments

In the Quran

أَءُلْقِىَ ٱلذِّكْرُ عَلَيْهِ مِنۢ بَيْنِنَا بَلْ هُوَ كَذَّابٌ أَشِرٌ

Hath the remembrance been given unto him alone among us? Nay, but he is a rash liar.

Quran 54:25
سَيَعْلَمُونَ غَدًا مَّنِ ٱلْكَذَّابُ ٱلْأَشِرُ

(Unto their warner it was said): To-morrow they will know who is the rash liar.

Quran 54:26

Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).

Word cards with examples

A2noun
تَأْشيرة
taʾshīra

visa

Example
أَحْتاج إلى تَأْشيرة لِلسَفَر.
aḥtāj ilā taʾshīra lis-safar.
I need a visa for travel.
B2noun
مُؤَشِّر
muʾashshir

indicator / index

Example
هذا مُؤَشِّرٌ إيجابِيٌّ عَلى النُّمُوِّ الاقتِصادِيّ.
hādhā muʾashshirun ījābiyyun ʿalā n-numuwwi l-iqtiṣādiyy.
This is a positive indicator of economic growth.

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