Arabic root

ع-س-ر

Ayn-Sin-Ra

1 word from this root family

About this root

Ayn-Sin-Ra (ع-س-ر) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: iʿsār (insolvency).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 12 times in 12 verses, across 9 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:185.

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	Taught in
إِعْسَار iʿsār	insolvency	noun, B2	Economic Policy

In the Quran

وَإِن كَانَ ذُو عُسْرَةٍ فَنَظِرَةٌ إِلَىٰ مَيْسَرَةٍ ۚ وَأَن تَصَدَّقُوا۟ خَيْرٌ لَّكُمْ ۖ إِن كُنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ

And if the debtor is in straitened circumstances, then (let there be) postponement to (the time of) ease; and that ye remit the debt as almsgiving would be better for you if ye did but know.

Quran 2:280

قَالَ لَا تُؤَاخِذْنِى بِمَا نَسِيتُ وَلَا تُرْهِقْنِى مِنْ أَمْرِى عُسْرًا

(Moses) said: Be not wroth with me that I forgot, and be not hard upon me for my fault.

Quran 18:73

ٱلْمُلْكُ يَوْمَئِذٍ ٱلْحَقُّ لِلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ۚ وَكَانَ يَوْمًا عَلَى ٱلْكَـٰفِرِينَ عَسِيرًا

The Sovereignty on that day will be the True (Sovereignty) belonging to the Beneficent One, and it will be a hard day for disbelievers.

Quran 25:26

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).