Quran glossary · draft

ٱلْأَبْتَر

cut off

Deprived of the continuation or enduring good by which a person would leave a lasting outcome.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: بتر

Lemmas: أبتر

Forms: أَبْتَرُ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

108:3

إِنَّ شَانِئَكَ هُوَ ٱلْأَبْتَرُ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered the sole occurrence of the definite adjective أَبْتَر at 108:3. After the messenger is granted abundance and commanded to pray and sacrifice, the ayah reverses hostile judgment by declaring that his hater is the one cut off. The contrast supports deprivation of enduring continuation or good, but the short surah does not independently specify whether the foregrounded loss is descendants, remembrance, communal influence, reward, or a broader combination. Cut off is therefore retained as the stable core while its precise scope remains for user review. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.