Quran glossary · draft

أَمَرُّ

be more bitter

An event or outcome exceeds a comparison baseline in bitterness and grievous severity.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1

Roots: مرر

Lemmas: أمر

Forms: أَمَرُّ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

54:46

بَلِ ٱلسَّاعَةُ مَوْعِدُهُمْ وَٱلسَّاعَةُ أَدْهَىٰ وَأَمَرُّ

Where other meanings fail

continuing

54:46

بَلِ ٱلسَّاعَةُ مَوْعِدُهُمْ وَٱلسَّاعَةُ أَدْهَىٰ وَأَمَرُّ

Alternative: the Hour is more calamitous and more continuing

Research rendering: the Hour is more calamitous and more bitter

The second adjective is a comparative severity predicate, not a Form X temporal-continuation participle.