Quran glossary · draft

الغَلْي

boil

To undergo the intense bubbling motion caused by scalding heat.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: غلي

Lemmas: يغلي · غلى

Forms: يَغْلِى · غَلْىِ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

44:45

كَٱلْمُهْلِ يَغْلِى فِى ٱلْبُطُونِ

44:46

كَغَلْىِ ٱلْحَمِيمِ

Why this meaning was chosen

Both contiguous occurrences were reviewed. A form I verb and its event noun describe the food of the sinful boiling in bellies like scalding water.