Roots

Sealed3 occurrences شئم sh'm The left side, opposite the right side. The text uses it only to place, on the last day, those who have disowned. Uses 1. ٱلْمَشْـَٔمَة → "the left side" : always in "the… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences شئن sh'n What occupies someone and holds him: the state he is in, the matter he is engaged in, on the scale of a person as on the scale of God. Uses 1. شَأْن (the state) → "situat… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences شبه shbh Resemblance: two things close enough to be taken one for the other, without being identical for all that. Uses 1. تَشَٰبَهَ, تَشَٰبَهَتْ → "to resemble one another" : thi… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences شتت shtt To be scattered, without cohesion: elements dispersed where one would expect a whole. Uses 1. شَتَّىٰ, لَشَتَّىٰ → "of every kind", "divided", "dispersed" : what is scatt… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شتو shtw Winter, the cold season. The text names it with summer, to say the whole year. Uses 1. ٱلشِّتَآء → "winter" : named with ٱلصَّيْف, summer: the two journeys of the year. «… Read the entry → Sealed27 occurrences شجر shjr The tree, the plant that rises in branches from a root. Once only, the verb names what has grown up between people and become entangled there: the controversy. Uses 1. شَ… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences شحح shhh Greed: the disposition of the Self that keeps for itself and covets, to the point of refusing all sharing. Uses 1. ٱلشُّحّ, شُحَّ نَفْسِهِۦ → "greed" : a disposition pres… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شحم shhm The fat of the animal, distinguished by the place it occupies in the body. Uses 1. شُحُوم → "fats" : the fat of cattle and sheep, prohibited to the Reoriented, with a few… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences شحن shhn To load a vessel until it is full: the word qualifies only the vessel, full of those it carries. Uses 1. ٱلْمَشْحُون → "laden" : the filled vessel, in a formula that neve… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences شخص shkhs To become fixed: the gaze that stops, wide open, unable to turn away from what is happening. Uses 1. تَشْخَصُ, شَٰخِصَة → "to be fixed" : the sights seized by the event o… Read the entry → Sealed102 occurrences شدد shdd Force carried to its highest degree: what binds and holds together, or what strikes with intensity. Uses 1. شَدِيد → "severe"; "formidable" in 13:13 and 59:14, "vehement"… Read the entry → Sealed39 occurrences شرب shrb To take in a liquid: to drink. The noun names what one drinks, the place where one drinks and the turn at which one drinks; figuratively, the root names a thing made to s… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences شرح shrh To open by widening: to give the chest room, so that it may receive. Uses 1. شَرَحَ, يَشْرَحْ, ٱشْرَحْ, نَشْرَحْ → "to open the chest" : to widen the inner space, to bein… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شرد shrd To scatter by putting to flight, so that the rout serves as a warning to those who come behind. Uses 1. فَشَرِّدْ بِهِم → "scatter through them" : the order given in war:… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شرذم shrdhm A small band: a group named by its smallness, to belittle it. Uses 1. شِرْذِمَة → "a small band" : Fir'awn's word for the sons of Israel as they leave; the adjective قَلِ… Read the entry → Sealed31 occurrences شرر shrr Ill: what harms, wherever the damage comes from. The concrete word شَرَر, sparks, gives its image: what springs from the fire and strikes. Uses 1. شَرّ, ٱلشَّرّ → "ill",… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شرط shrt The sign that announces: what precedes an event and makes it known in advance, without being the event itself. Uses 1. أَشْرَاط → "precursory signs" : the indications, al… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences شرع shr' To open a direct access: the water where the fish come into the open, and, from there, the way opened in the Law to be followed. Uses 1. شُرَّعًا → "in the open" : the fi… Read the entry → Sealed17 occurrences شرق shrq The rising of light: the side where the sun rises, and the brightness that spreads. Uses 1. ٱلْمَشْرِق → "the east" : the side of the rising, almost always joined to the… Read the entry → Sealed168 occurrences شرك shrk To have a share together in one same thing. Said of God, it is to give another a share of what belongs to Him alone: obedience, the Law, creation, guidance. Uses 1. أَشْر… Read the entry → Sealed25 occurrences شرى shra To exchange a good for a price: the same root names both sides of the market, giving up (selling) or taking for oneself (buying). Uses 1. شَرَىٰ, يَشْرِى → "to sell" : th… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences شطء sht' What stands or comes out at the edge of a thing: the shoot a seed puts forth, the side of a valley. Uses 1. شَطْء → "shoot" : the first stalk a seed puts forth. «كَزَرْعٍ… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences شطر shtr To set one's course for a point: the orientation one takes toward a fixed place, distinct from the place itself. Uses 1. وَلِّ وَجْهَكَ شَطْرَ → "to set one's course for"… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences شطط shtt To go too far: the deviation that exceeds the measure, in speech or in judgment. Uses 1. شَطَط → "an enormous excess", "excessive words" : speech that goes beyond what is… Read the entry → Sealed88 occurrences شطن shtn To turn aside from the way: the root names the one who diverts, by embellishing evil to make it desirable. He is named by what he does: "the Diverter". Uses 1. ٱلشَّيْطَٰ… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences شعب sh'b What branches out from a common trunk: the nations born of a single couple, the branches of a shadow. The proper name Shu'ayb is linked to the root; the translation keeps… Read the entry → Sealed38 occurrences شعر sh'r To sense: what the body takes in, and what one makes others sense. Hence what is instituted to be sensed, the perceptible marker, and the one who acts on the sensibility… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شعرى sh'ra Proper name of a star: Sirius. The text names it only once, to say that God is its Guardian. Uses 1. ٱلشِّعْرَىٰ → "Sirius" : the brightest star of the night sky. «وَأَنَ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شعل sh'l To catch fire and spread: the blaze that takes everything. Uses 1. ٱشْتَعَلَ → "to blaze" : said of the head that whiteness overruns, like a fire. «وَٱشْتَعَلَ ٱلرَّأْسُ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شغف shghf To reach as far as the heart's envelope: a love that does not stay on the surface and takes hold of the whole being. Uses 1. شَغَفَهَا حُبًّا → "to captivate with love" :… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences شغل shghl To occupy: to take up the attention or the strength to the point of standing in for everything else. Uses 1. شُغُل → "occupied" : the happy occupation of the Garden, whic… Read the entry → Sealed31 occurrences شفع shf' To join to another so as to make a pair: to join one's voice to another's to plead his cause, or the number that goes by two. Uses 1. شَفَعَ, يَشْفَعُ → "to intercede" :… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences شفق shfq Apprehension: the anxious and watchful expectation of what is coming. The same word once names the twilight glow, with no link of meaning to the first. Uses 1. مُشْفِق, أ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شفه shfh The lip: the organ that closes the mouth and shapes speech. Uses 1. شَفَتَيْن → "two lips" : named with the eyes and the tongue among the gifts made to the human being. «… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences شفو shfw The extreme edge: the last limit before the fall. Uses 1. شَفَا → "the edge" : always followed by what opens below: a pit of fire, a ravine about to cave in. «وَكُنتُمْ ع… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences شفى shfa To make sound what suffers: healing, of the body as of what is in the chests. Uses 1. شَفَىٰ, يَشْفِى → "to heal" : to restore health; God is always its subject. «وَإِذَا… Read the entry → Sealed28 occurrences شقق shqq To split in two: to open a matter, or to open a division between people; from the same image come the hardship that costs and the distance that separates. Uses 1. ٱنشَقَّ… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences شقو shqw Wretchedness, the opposite of happiness: the hardship one falls into outside guidance, whose extreme is the Fire. Uses 1. شَقِىّ, شَقُوا۟ → "wretched", "to be wretched" :… Read the entry → Sealed75 occurrences شكر shkr To acknowledge the blessing received and to answer it: to be grateful; the opposite of disowning. Uses 1. شَكَرَ, يَشْكُرُ, ٱشْكُرْ → "to be grateful", "to acknowledge" :… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شكس shks To be in disagreement with one another: to dispute over the same thing. Uses 1. مُتَشَٰكِسُون → "in disagreement" : partners who dispute over the same man. «رَّجُلًۭا فِي… Read the entry → Sealed15 occurrences شكك shkk Doubt: not holding a thing to be true, remaining without certainty about it. Uses 1. فِى شَكٍّ مِّنْ, شَكٌّ → "in doubt about", "doubt" : the state of one who does not ho… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences شكل shkl The proper form of a being or a thing: what it corresponds to, its manner of being or its kind. Uses 1. شَاكِلَة → "own manner" : each one's way of being, from which his… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences شكو shkw To carry one's pain toward one alone: the complaint addressed to a precise recipient; and, through the noun مِشْكَوٰة, the niche, a hollow that gathers a light into one p… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شمئز shm'z To shrink with revulsion: the movement of the core that tightens before what it refuses. Uses 1. ٱشْمَأَزَّتْ → "to shrink with revulsion" : a refusal that shows in the m… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شمت shmt To rejoice at another's misfortune: the malicious joy of an enemy at the fall of the one he fights. Uses 1. تُشْمِتْ → "to let … gloat over me" : the causative form: to g… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شمخ shmkh To rise high: the height that dominates what surrounds it. Uses 1. شَٰمِخَٰت → "lofty" : said of the anchors placed upon the earth, among the favours recalled. «وَجَعَلْن… Read the entry → Sealed33 occurrences شمس shms The sun, the star of the day, almost always named with the moon. Uses 1. ٱلشَّمْس → "the sun" : the subjected star, which runs according to a reckoning. «وَسَخَّرَ ٱلشَّم… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences شمل shml Two uses that the text keeps apart: to contain within oneself, and the left, the side opposite the right. Uses 1. ٱشْتَمَلَ عَلَى → "to contain" : to hold within oneself.… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences شنء shn' Hatred: the hostility that drives one to act against the one hated. Uses 1. شَنَـَٔان → "hatred" : hatred borne toward a people, which can turn one aside from just conduc… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences شهب shhb The streak of fire: a bright flame that speeds to its target, or that one carries along. Uses 1. شِهَاب, شُهُب → "blazing projectile" : the streak of fire that pursues wh… Read the entry → Sealed160 occurrences شهد shhd To be present at a fact and answer for it: to see with one's own eyes, then bear witness to what one has seen. Uses 1. شَهِدَ, يَشْهَدُ → "to testify", "to attest", "to w… Read the entry → Sealed21 occurrences شهر shhr The month: a fixed unit of count, by which the text measures the durations it prescribes; its calculations take it as thirty days. Uses 1. شَهْر, ٱلشَّهْر → "month", "the… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences شهق shhq The hoarse sound of a forced breath: man's sobbing in distress, the roaring of the Fire. Uses 1. شَهِيق (man) → "sobbing" : the sound of those who will be wretched, joine… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences شهو shhw To desire: the movement of appetite toward an object. The word does not judge; it is the object and the conduct that make desire a straying or a promise. Uses 1. ٱشْتَهَى… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شوب shwb What is added to a thing by cutting it with another: a brew poured on top. Uses 1. شَوْب → "a brew" : the boiling water poured on top of the meal from the tree of Zaqqoum… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences شور shwr To show to another: to submit one's view to the view of others so as to decide together, or to point with the hand at what one does not say. Uses 1. شَاوَرَ, تَشَاوُر, شُ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شوظ shwz The sheaf of fire: a fire that bursts out and is thrown toward its target. Uses 1. شُوَاظ → "sheaf of fire" : the fire sent upon the two kinds of beings. «يُرْسَلُ عَلَيْ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences شوك shwk The thorn; by image, armed force: what pricks and wounds on contact. Uses 1. غَيْرَ ذَاتِ ٱلشَّوْكَةِ → "without arms" : the group without a thorn, opposed to the armed g… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences شوى shwa The action of fire on what is exposed to it: to burn the surface; as a noun, the skin covering the skull. Uses 1. يَشْوِى → "to scald" : a burning water that reaches the… Read the entry → Sealed519 occurrences شىء sha' Good pleasure and its object: the verb شَآءَ says what it pleases someone to set, the noun شَىْء the thing so set, whatever it may be. Uses 1. يَشَآءُ, شَآءَ (God as subj… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences شيب shyb To whiten with age: hair turning white, the visible sign of old age. Uses 1. شَيْب → "white" : the whiteness that takes over the head. «وَٱشْتَعَلَ ٱلرَّأْسُ شَيْبًۭا» —… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences شيخ shykh The old man: advanced age, the last named stage of human life, with no blame laid on it. Uses 1. شَيْخ → "old man" : the aged man, often named to say what he can no longe… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences شيد shyd To build high and strong: the raised and fortified edifice, which the text shows does not protect from what is decreed. Uses 1. مُشَيَّدَة → "impregnable" : towers built… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences شيع shy' To follow and to spread: the group formed by those who follow the same one, and the thing that passes from one to another. Uses 1. شِيعَة, شِيَع → "faction", "factions" :… Read the entry →