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Onion (بصل)

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From the Quranic Arabic Corpus - Ontology of Quranic Concepts

Onion (بصل) is one of the types of plant mentioned in the Quran. This concept is part of the following classification in the ontology:

Concept (root)
Living Creation
Organic Object
Biological Organism
Plant
Onion (بصل)
Quranic Concept
Onion
بصل
TranslationOnion
Transliterationbaṣal
CategoryPlant


Onion is referred to in verse (2:61) of chapter (2) sūrat l-baqarah (The Cow):

Sahih International: And [recall] when you said, "O Moses, we can never endure one [kind of] food. So call upon your Lord to bring forth for us from the earth its green herbs and its cucumbers and its garlic and its lentils and its onions." [Moses] said, "Would you exchange what is better for what is less? Go into [any] settlement and indeed, you will have what you have asked." And they were covered with humiliation and poverty and returned with anger from Allah [upon them]. That was because they [repeatedly] disbelieved in the signs of Allah and killed the prophets without right. That was because they disobeyed and were [habitually] transgressing.


Visual Concept Map

The map below shows the part of the visual ontology for this concept. You can click on other concepts in the map for related information:

InsectBirdCrowCucumberPlantDate PalmFigGingerGoatGrapeHerbHoopoeLeafLentilOliveOnionGarlicPomegranateQuailSheepTree

Concept map for Onion. Related concepts are highlighted in blue.

Knowledge Base

// Predicate logic relations for the ontology concept onion:

(instance onion plant)

See Also

  • Verse List - Show other verses related to this concept in the Quran (1 occurance)
  • Onion - Wikipedia article
  • Quran Index - Index of Quranic concepts

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