Quran glossary · draft

فَيَدْمَغُهُۥ

crush

To overwhelm the opposing falsehood through a decisive impact.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: دمغ

Lemmas: يدمغ

Forms: يَدْمَغُ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

21:18

بَلْ نَقْذِفُ بِٱلْحَقِّ عَلَى ٱلْبَٰطِلِ فَيَدْمَغُهُۥ فَإِذَا هُوَ زَاهِقٌ وَلَكُمُ ٱلْوَيْلُ مِمَّا تَصِفُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered the sole occurrence of Form I يَدْمَغُ at 21:18. God hurls truth against falsehood; the target action then happens to falsehood, with the immediate result that falsehood is زَاهِق, gone away or extinguished. The projectile construction, direct object, and stated result establish a forceful, decisive crushing rather than a mild rebuttal. Because the occurrence is figurative and no Quran-internal literal comparator names the struck body part, the ayah does not independently decide whether English should preserve a head-striking image. The target is a third-person masculine singular indicative imperfect with an attached object pronoun in the full word. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.