Quran glossary · draft

قَتَر وقَتَرَة

darkening facial cover

A darkening cover that overtakes a face as a mark of adverse outcome.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: قتر

Lemmas: قتر · قترة

Forms: قَتَرٌ · قَتَرَةٌ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

10:26

لِّلَّذِينَ أَحْسَنُوا۟ ٱلْحُسْنَىٰ وَزِيَادَةٌ وَلَا يَرْهَقُ وُجُوهَهُمْ قَتَرٌ وَلَا ذِلَّةٌ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْجَنَّةِ هُمْ فِيهَا خَٰلِدُونَ

80:41

تَرْهَقُهَا قَتَرَةٌ

Why this meaning was chosen

All five occurrences were compared. Three economic contexts explicitly contrast constrained means or withholding with abundance and excess, establishing the resource-restriction core. قَتَر and قَتَرَة instead overtake faces as an external covering and therefore form an exact two-segment collision; the Quran does not state a bridge from economic restriction to that facial cover. Its precise visual quality remains for user review. No aligned reading divergence is present.