Surah Al-Mu'minun 23:12

وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ مِن سُلَـٰلَةٍ مِّن طِينٍ

And certainly did We create man from an extract of clay.

Translation: Saheeh International

Tafsir

And by God We certainly created man Adam from an extraction min sulālatin derives from the verbal expression salaltu’l-shay’a mina’l-shay’ ‘I drew one thing out of another’ meaning ‘I extracted it therefrom’ his Adam’s substance being of clay min tīnin is semantically connected to sulālatin ‘an extraction’.

Excerpt from Tafsir al-Jalalayn, commentary on 23:12, via Quran.com. The reader has the full commentary and 9 more tafsirs.