عَسْعَسَ
Root: عس
Form: R. Q. 1
Full Definition
2 عَسْعَسَ اللَّيْلُ The night came on: or came on with its darkness; its darkness came on: or departed: or it has this last meaning also; bearing two contr. significations: or was dark; meaning, all the night: Fr says that, in the Kur [lxxxi. 17], وَٱللَّيْلِ إِذَا عَسْعَسَ, accord. to all the expositors, signifies and by the night when it departeth: but that some of his companions asserted the meaning to be when its commencement approacheth, and it becometh dark: like as you say عَسْعَسَ السَّحَابُ, which signifies the clouds approached the earth: or this is only said when it is in the night, with darkness and lightning.
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