وَإِذَا ٱلْمَوْءُۥدَةُ سُئِلَتْ
Quran glossary · draft
وأد
bury alive
To cause a living person to die by placing and enclosing that person beneath the earth.
Lexical scope
Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1
Roots: وأد
Lemmas: موءدة
Forms: مَوْءُۥدَةُ
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Where other meanings fail
killer
81:8
وَإِذَا ٱلْمَوْءُۥدَةُ سُئِلَتْ
Alternative: when the female killer is questioned, for what offense she was killed
Research rendering: when the girl buried alive is questioned, for what offense she was killed
The passive participle profiles the victim, and the following passive killing question confirms that she received the lethal act.
questioned girl
81:8
وَإِذَا ٱلْمَوْءُۥدَةُ سُئِلَتْ
Alternative: when the questioned girl is questioned
Research rendering: when the girl buried alive is questioned
Questioning is already supplied by the clause predicate; the participle identifies the prior lethal treatment of its subject.