# Nun-Sin-Elif — نسا (nsA)

> Occurs in 2 verses of the Quran.

- **Source:** https://quran.so/root/nsA

- **Meaning:** Staff/stick, ruling power and glory.
- **Derived forms:** مِنسَأَت (1) · نَّسِىء (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 9. Surah At-Tawbah, Verse 37

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلنَّسِىٓءُ — l-nasīu · "the postponing"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · nominative case

اِنَّمَا النَّس۪ٓيءُ زِيَادَةٌ فِي الْكُفْرِ يُضَلُّ بِهِ الَّذ۪ينَ كَفَرُوا يُحِلُّونَهُ عَاماً وَيُحَرِّمُونَهُ عَاماً لِيُوَاطِؤُ۫ا عِدَّةَ مَا حَرَّمَ اللّٰهُ فَيُحِلُّوا مَا حَرَّمَ اللّٰهُۜ زُيِّنَ لَهُمْ سُٓوءُ اَعْمَالِهِمْۜ وَاللّٰهُ لَا يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الْكَافِر۪ينَ۟

Innama annasee-o ziyadatunfee alkufri yudallu bihi allatheena kafaroo yuhilloonahuAAaman wayuharrimoonahu AAaman liyuwati-ooAAiddata ma harrama Allahu fayuhillooma harrama Allahu zuyyina lahum soo-o aAAmalihimwallahu la yahdee alqawma alkafireen

Postponement is but an increase in denial whereby those who ignore warning are led astray; they make it lawful one year and make it unlawful another year, that the count might agree with what God made unlawful — so they make lawful what God made unlawful; made fair to them is the evil of their deeds; and God guides not the people of the false claimers of guidance.

_https://quran.so/surah-at-tawbah/verse-37.md_

### 34. Surah Saba, Verse 14

- **Form in this verse:** مِنسَأَتَهُۥ ۖ — minsa-atahu · "his staff"
  - **Grammar:** noun · feminine · accusative case

فَلَمَّا قَضَيْنَا عَلَيْهِ الْمَوْتَ مَا دَلَّهُمْ عَلٰى مَوْتِه۪ٓ اِلَّا دَٓابَّةُ الْاَرْضِ تَأْكُلُ مِنْسَاَتَهُۚ فَلَمَّا خَرَّ تَبَيَّنَتِ الْجِنُّ اَنْ لَوْ كَانُوا يَعْلَمُونَ الْغَيْبَ مَا لَبِثُوا فِي الْعَذَابِ الْمُه۪ينِ

Falamma qadaynaAAalayhi almawta ma dallahum AAala mawtihi illadabbatu al-ardi ta/kulu minsaatahu falammakharra tabayyanati aljinnu an law kanoo yaAAlamoonaalghayba ma labithoo fee alAAathabi almuheen

And when We decreed death for him, there indicated his death to them only a creature of the earth eating at his staff. But when he fell down, it became clear to the domini that had they but known the Unseen, they would not have tarried in the humiliating punishment.

_https://quran.so/surah-saba/verse-14.md_

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