Quran glossary · draft

سمر

conversational gathering

An evening conversational gathering marked here by arrogant speech.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: سمر

Lemmas: سامر

Forms: سَٰمِرًا

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

23:67

مُسْتَكْبِرِينَ بِهِۦ سَٰمِرًا تَهْجُرُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

The common noun سَامِر occurs once in a scene of arrogant, objectionable talk and denotes the conversational gathering. The remaining forms are the proper name al-Samiri for the individual who misled Moses' people through the calf. The Quran offers no internal derivational link from that name to evening conversation, so the proper-name branch is kept as a lexical collision.