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ب-ش-ر

Ba-Shin-Ra

2 words from this root family

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Ba-Shin-Ra (ب-ش-ر) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: bashīr (bearer of good tidings / bringer of good news), mubāsharatan (straight ahead / directly).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 123 times in 119 verses, across 47 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:25. The form بَشِيرٌ (bearer of good tidings / bringer of good news) accounts for 9 of them.

Themes: Quranic, Travel, Directions

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
بَشِيرٌ
bashīr
bearer of good tidings / bringer of good newsnoun, B19×Character, Community, and Worship
مُباشَرةً
mubāsharatan
straight ahead / directlyadverb, A2Asking for Directions

“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.

In the Quran

قُلْ مَن كَانَ عَدُوًّا لِّجِبْرِيلَ فَإِنَّهُۥ نَزَّلَهُۥ عَلَىٰ قَلْبِكَ بِإِذْنِ ٱللَّهِ مُصَدِّقًا لِّمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ وَهُدًى وَبُشْرَىٰ لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ

Say (O Muhammad, to mankind): Who is an enemy to Gabriel! For he it is who hath revealed (this Scripture) to thy heart by Allah's leave, confirming that which was (revealed) before it, and a guidance and glad tidings to believers;

Quran 2:97
إِنَّآ أَرْسَلْنَـٰكَ بِٱلْحَقِّ بَشِيرًا وَنَذِيرًا ۖ وَلَا تُسْـَٔلُ عَنْ أَصْحَـٰبِ ٱلْجَحِيمِ

Lo! We have sent thee (O Muhammad) with the truth, a bringer of glad tidings and a warner. And thou wilt not be asked about the owners of hell-fire.

Quran 2:119
وَلَنَبْلُوَنَّكُم بِشَىْءٍ مِّنَ ٱلْخَوْفِ وَٱلْجُوعِ وَنَقْصٍ مِّنَ ٱلْأَمْوَٰلِ وَٱلْأَنفُسِ وَٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ ۗ وَبَشِّرِ ٱلصَّـٰبِرِينَ

And surely We shall try you with something of fear and hunger, and loss of wealth and lives and crops; but give glad tidings to the steadfast,

Quran 2:155

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

B1noun
بَشِيرٌ
bashīr

bearer of good tidings / bringer of good news

Example
وَمَا نُرْسِلُ الْمُرْسَلِينَ إِلَّا مُبَشِّرِينَ وَمُنْذِرِينَ
wa-mā nursilu al-mursalīna illā mubashshirīna wa-mundhirīn
And We send not the messengers except as bringers of good tidings and warners (6:48)
Grammar

Active participle (faʿīl) of بَشَّرَ (Form II, to give good news). Noun: بِشَارَةٌ / بُشْرَى (good news/glad tidings). Related: بَشَرٌ (human being).

Culture

The balance of tabshīr (glad tidings) and indhār (warning) reflects the Quranic balance of hope (rajāʾ) and fear (khawf) in faith.

A2adverb
مُباشَرةً
mubāsharatan

straight ahead / directly

Example
اِمْشِ مُباشَرةً ثُمَّ اِنْعَطِف يَمينًا.
imshi mubāsharatan thumma inʿaṭif yamīnan.
Walk straight ahead then turn right.

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