Semantic Seed (Root): س م و
Words from this Root in the Grand Qur'ān:
a) Total occurrences: 381: All Ayahs (
https://haqeeqat.pk/sohail/qr1)
b) No of constructions: 33
Nouns denoting names: 19 Recurrence: 63;
Verbs Form-II: 6 Recurrence: 8;
Nouns denoting Sky/skies:: 8 Recurrence: 310
Classical Lexicons stated its basic perception as:
(مقاييس اللغة)
السين والميم والواو أصلٌ يدل على العُلُوِّ
(لسان العرب)
السُّمُوُّ: الارْتِفاعُ والعُلُو
That the basic perception infolded in the Root is of eminence, elevation, ascension, transcendence, and loftiness of a thing spread and overshadowing another thing.
Semantic Frame: The Cognitive ProcessSensory Input Roots (Receptors of cognition)
This is the first of "entry points" of perception, the raw data-gathering faculties. Name of the objects; initiation of knowledge.
Others are:
س م ع (to hear, acoustic faculty)
ب ص ر (to see, visual faculty, enlightenment)
أ ذ ن (ear; permission; channel of hearing)
ع ي ن (eye, source of sight)
ش ع ر (to feel, perceive, become conscious)
ص م م (to be deaf)
ب ك م (to be mute)
ع م ى (to be blind)
The Qur'ān repeatedly presents cognition as a cycle:
Perception → (hearing, sight, sensing: سمع, بصر, عين, أذن, شعر)
Processing → (heart, intellect, memory: قلب, عقل, لب, فؤاد, ذكر, نسي)
Expression → (speech, writing, recitation: قول, كلم, قلم, كتاب,تلو، قرأ)
Ontological anchoring → (link to creation, decree, light, life/death: خلق, قدر, نور, موت, حيّ).
Key Qur'anic patterns:
Hearing, seeing, and the Triune brain (baking establishment) appear together as faculties of responsibility (16:78; 23:78; 32:9; 67:23).
Deaf–dumb–blind triad symbolizes failed cognition (2:18; 2:171).
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