ن س ل n-s-l
VERBVerb #673Verbs
يَنسِلُونَ
yansilūn
lit., to spring or descend swiftly in large numbers; to spring or descend; offspring, descendants.

Definition

  1. 1يَنسِلُونَyansilūnto spring, descend, swarm down2
  2. 2نَسْلnasloffspring, descendants2
Total uses in the Qur’an: 4

Qur’anic usage

Sense 1
يَنسِلُونَ
كُلِّ حَدَبٍ
And they will be swarming down 'swiftly' from every hill.
21:96draft glosses: 2 of 2
Sense 2
النَّسْل · نَسْلَهُ
وَيُهْلِكَ ٱلْحَرْثَ وَٱلنَّسْلَ وَٱللَّهُ
... and he destroys crops and 'cattle' offspring.
2:205draft glosses: 4 of 4
ثُمَّ جَعَلَ نَسْلَهُۥ مِن سُلَٰلَةٍۢ
Then He made his descendants from an extract of a humble fluid.
32:8draft glosses: 5 of 5

Notes

This root has various shades of meaning, such as swarming, descending, and coming out.

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