بسس

Core meaning

To reduce a mass to particles that scatter.

Uses

1. بُسَّتِ, بَسًّا → "to crush to powder" : the verb and its verbal noun express a complete crumbling.

   • «وَبُسَّتِ ٱلْجِبَالُ بَسًّۭا» — "and the mountains are crushed to powder" (56:5)

Evidence from the text

The single use is caught in a sequence of three moments: the earth "rocked with a violent rocking", the mountains crushed to powder, then "becoming scattered dust" (56:6). The verb stands between the rocking and the scattering: it does not express a crack, but the mass reduced to grains that nothing holds together any more.

See also

رجج (to rock) · هبو (dust)