صنم

Form 2 · 3 entries · Qur'ānic frequency 5

Form 2صنّم1 sense

maṣdarتَصْنِيمٌ

Core sense — he formed, shaped, or sculptured somethinggenerated

2.1he formed, shaped, sculptured, or pictured—صَوَّرَ

Apparently from the noun that follows.

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, inf. n. تَصْنِيمٌ , i. q. صَوَّرَ [He formed, fashioned, figured, shaped, sculptured, or pictured: app. from the noun here following]. (K.)

Derived nouns 2

Nounصَنَمٌ1 sense

Core sense — an idol; an image that is worshippedgenerated

An idol, or an idol of a particular kind: a وَثَن or a وَثَن that is worshipped.

Or a وَثَن that is made of stones, or of wood; so on the authority of I'Ab.

Or a thing well known, carved of wood, and made of molten and cast silver and copper or brass.

Or the صنم is made of metals that melt, and the وثن is made of stone or of wood.

Hishám El-Kelbee: the former is made of wood, or gold, or silver, or other metal; and the latter, of stones.

Ibn-'Arafeh and El-Fihree: the former is an image, and the latter is a shapeless thing.

Some say the former is a thing having bodily form, carved of wood or of stone or of silver, and worshipped; and [the latter (written صنم, but I suppose this to be a mistake for وثن)] is a form without body.

Or the former is a thing having the form of a human being, and the latter a thing having some other form.

Or the former is a thing having material substance or shape, and the latter a thing not having material substance or shape.

Or the former is of stones or other material, and the latter is an embodied form.

IAth: the latter [?] is anything having bodily form, made of metal or of wood and stones, like the form of a human being, made, set up, and worshipped; and the former [?] is a form without body. This is said in art. وثن, but from the explanations given above it seems that the reverse is the case.

Abu-l-'Abbás, on the authority of IAar: صَنَمَةٌ and نَصَمَةٌ both mean an image that is worshipped; each of these two words is بِالتَّحْرِيك, though according to the K the latter would seem to be نَصْمَةٌ.

صَنَمٌ is said to be an arabicized word, from شَمَن, which is Persian, though SM says he does not know in what language it is, since in Persian it is بت [i.e. بُتْ].

The plural is أَصْنَامٌ, which, as used in the Qur'ān 14:38, Er-Rāghib takes to mean things that divert one from God.

Qur’ān 14:33 approximate — somewhere between 14:27 and 14:52 Lane cites “Kur xiv. 38”

Qur’ān 14:35 located by this root inside the range Lane’s citation allows

وَإِذْ قَالَ إِبْرَٰهِيمُ رَبِّ ٱجْعَلْ هَـٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدَ ءَامِنًا وَٱجْنُبْنِى وَبَنِىَّ أَن نَّعْبُدَ ٱلْأَصْنَامَ

Remember Abraham said: "O my Lord! make this city one of peace and security: and preserve me and my sons from worshipping idols.Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur’ān (1934)

Show Lane's original text

[An idol: or an idol of a particular kind:] a وَثَن : (S:) or a وَثَن that is worshipped: (K:) or a وَثَن that is made of stones, and of wood; as is said on the authority of I'Ab: (Msb:) or a thing well known, that is carved of wood, and that is made of molten and cast silver and copper or brass: (M; and the like is said in the Msb on the authority of IF:) or the صنم is made of metals that melt; and the وثن is made of stone or of wood: (Msb:) or, accord. to Hishám ElKelbee, the former is made of wood or of gold or of silver or of other metal; and the latter, of stones: or, accord. to Ibn-'Arafeh and El-Fihree, the former is an image; and the latter is a shapeless thing: or, as some say, the former is a thing having corporeal from, carved of wood or of stone or of silver, and worshipped; and [the latter (in the TA the صنم , but this I suppose to be a mistake for the وثن ,)] is a incorporeal form: or the former is a thing having the form of a human being; and the latter, a thing having some other form: or the former is a thing having material substance or shape; and the latter, a thing not having material substance or shape: or the former is of stones or other material; and the latter, an embodied form: (TA:) or, accord. to IAth, the latter [?] is anything having corporeal form, made of metal or of wood and stones, like the form of a human being, made, and set up, and worshipped; and the former [?] an incorporeal form: (TA in art. وثن : [from explanations given above, it seems that the reverse of this is the case:]) and Abu-l-'Abbás states, on the authority of IAar, that صَنَمَةٌ and نَصَمَةٌ signify an image ( صُورَةٌ ) that is worshipped; (TA in the present art.;) each of these two words is thus ( بِالتَّحْرِيك ), though it would seem that accord. to the K the latter is نَصْمَةٌ : (TA in art. نصم :) صَنَمٌ (S, K) it is said (S) is an arabicized word, from شَمَن (S, K) [which is Pers., though SM says,] I know not in what language, for in Pers. it is بت [i. e. بُتْ ]: (TA:) the pl. is أَصْنَامٌ ; (S, M, Msb;) which, as used in the Kur xiv. 38, is said by Er-Rághib to mean things that divert one from God. (TA.)

Nounصَنَمَةٌ3 senses

Core sense — an idol; a calamity; the quill of a feathergenerated

See the preceding entry.

Also a calamity; a dialectal variant of صَلَمَةٌ, mentioned by Az but left out in the K in art. صلم.

3the quill of any feather—قَصَبَة

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: see the next preceding paragraph. Also A calamity; a dial. var. of صَلَمَةٌ ; (K, TA;) which is mentioned by Az, but omitted in the K in art. صلم . (TA.) And The قَصَبَة [or quill] of any feather. (K.)