س م و
elevation, what rises high enough to be seen
381 words across 352 ayat of the Quran
counted, not estimated
What the letters mean
السين والميم والواو أصل يدل على العلو
Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-Lugha
Ibn Fāris held that every root carries one core sense, and that every word built on it keeps that sense somewhere. This line is his statement of it for these three letters. Who he is
This root is disputed
The grammarians did not agree about where this word comes from, and the
disagreement was never settled. Both positions are kept rather than one
being chosen. It is also filed under waw-sin-mim.
Where it appears
The first 12 of 352 ayat containing a word from this root.
1:12:192:222:292:312:332:592:1072:1142:1162:1172:144