Quran glossary · draft

ضَرِيع

ḍarīʿ food

A named food assigned exclusively to the condemned and explicitly ineffective at nourishment or relieving hunger.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1

Roots: ضرع

Lemmas: ضريع

Forms: ضَرِيعٍ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

88:6

لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ

Where other meanings fail

humble appeal

88:6

لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ

Alternative: they have no food except humble appeal

Research rendering: they have no food except ḍarīʿ

The exception fills a food-entity slot and the continuation evaluates nourishment, which an appeal event cannot satisfy.