وَلْيَسْتَعْفِفِ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يَجِدُونَ نِكَاحًا حَتَّىٰ يُغْنِيَهُمُ ٱللَّهُ مِن فَضْلِهِۦ وَٱلَّذِينَ يَبْتَغُونَ ٱلْكِتَٰبَ مِمَّا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَٰنُكُمْ فَكَاتِبُوهُمْ إِنْ عَلِمْتُمْ فِيهِمْ خَيْرًا وَءَاتُوهُم مِّن مَّالِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلَّذِىٓ ءَاتَىٰكُمْ وَلَا تُكْرِهُوا۟ فَتَيَٰتِكُمْ عَلَى ٱلْبِغَآءِ إِنْ أَرَدْنَ تَحَصُّنًا لِّتَبْتَغُوا۟ عَرَضَ ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا وَمَن يُكْرِههُّنَّ فَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ مِنۢ بَعْدِ إِكْرَٰهِهِنَّ غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ
Quran glossary · draft
بِغاء
commercial sexual exploitation
Sexual activity imposed on women who desire chastity for the coercer's worldly gain.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1
Roots: بغي
Lemmas: بغاء
Forms: بِغَآءِ
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Why this meaning was chosen
Quran-internal reconciliation of all 96 occurrences. Direct objects and form VIII anchor purposeful seeking; عَلَى, بِغَيْرِ ٱلْحَقِّ, distortion, and barrier contexts anchor overreach as pursuit beyond a due bound; form VII presents what is fitting or attainable. The compacted 'overreach' candidate fits the بَغْي action noun but fails on the two بَغِيّ person-predicates, which receive an exact same-core sexual-status rendering. The single بِغاء noun is rendered from its explicit coercion/chastity/worldly-gain context rather than external commentary.