وَإِذَا ٱلْمَوْءُۥدَةُ سُئِلَتْ
Quran glossary · draft
وأد
buried child
A murdered female child called forward to expose the absence of any offense warranting her death.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1
Roots: وأد
Lemmas: موءدة
Forms: مَوْءُۥدَةُ
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Why this meaning was chosen
The sole target is a definite feminine Form I passive participle who is questioned at final judgment about the offense for which she was killed. The Quran's parallel description at 16:58-59 of reacting to a female birth by hiding her in the dust supplies the Quran-internal burial frame.