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Arabic root

ع-ش-و

Ayn-Shin-Waw

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About this root

Ayn-Shin-Waw (ع-ش-و) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: ʿashāʾ (dinner).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 14 times in 14 verses, across 11 of the 114 suras. The first is in 3:41.

Themes: Food, Meals

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
عَشَاء
ʿashāʾ
dinnernoun, A1At the Restaurant - Part 1

In the Quran

قَالَ رَبِّ ٱجْعَل لِّىٓ ءَايَةً ۖ قَالَ ءَايَتُكَ أَلَّا تُكَلِّمَ ٱلنَّاسَ ثَلَـٰثَةَ أَيَّامٍ إِلَّا رَمْزًا ۗ وَٱذْكُر رَّبَّكَ كَثِيرًا وَسَبِّحْ بِٱلْعَشِىِّ وَٱلْإِبْكَـٰرِ

He said: My Lord! Appoint a token for me. (The angel) said: The token unto thee (shall be) that thou shalt not speak unto mankind three days except by signs. Remember thy Lord much, and praise (Him) in the early hours of night and morning.

Quran 3:41
وَجَآءُوٓ أَبَاهُمْ عِشَآءً يَبْكُونَ

And they came weeping to their father in the evening.

Quran 12:16
وَمَن يَعْشُ عَن ذِكْرِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ نُقَيِّضْ لَهُۥ شَيْطَـٰنًا فَهُوَ لَهُۥ قَرِينٌ

And he whose sight is dim to the remembrance of the Beneficent, We assign unto him a devil who becometh his comrade;

Quran 43:36

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

A1noun
عَشَاء
ʿashāʾ

dinner

Example
العَشَاءُ جَاهِزٌ
al-ʿashāʾu jāhizun
Dinner is ready

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