Quran glossary · draft

أَذْقَان

chins

The lower front points of the face beneath the mouth.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 3

Roots: ذقن

Lemmas: أذقان

Forms: أَذْقَانِ

Occurrence examples (3 of 3)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.

17:107

قُلْ ءَامِنُوا۟ بِهِۦٓ أَوْ لَا تُؤْمِنُوٓا۟ إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُوا۟ ٱلْعِلْمَ مِن قَبْلِهِۦٓ إِذَا يُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِمْ يَخِرُّونَ لِلْأَذْقَانِ سُجَّدًا

17:109

وَيَخِرُّونَ لِلْأَذْقَانِ يَبْكُونَ وَيَزِيدُهُمْ خُشُوعًا

36:8

إِنَّا جَعَلْنَا فِىٓ أَعْنَٰقِهِمْ أَغْلَٰلًا فَهِىَ إِلَى ٱلْأَذْقَانِ فَهُم مُّقْمَحُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered all three occurrences of the broken plural أَذْقَان. Those given knowledge fall upon their chins in prostration and weeping in 17:107 and 17:109; in 36:8 shackles extend from necks to chins and force the heads upward. Contact in prostration and the neck-to-face restraint jointly establish the lower front of the face. Every target has the same plural form and stable anatomical core. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.