Quran glossary · draft

تعس

downfall

A disastrous downfall invoked upon someone.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: تعس

Lemmas: تعس

Forms: تَعْسًا

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

47:8

وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ فَتَعْسًا لَّهُمْ وَأَضَلَّ أَعْمَٰلَهُمْ

Why this meaning was chosen

The sole noun occurs in a construction directed against those who disbelieve, immediately alongside the undoing of their deeds. The rendering captures the invoked adverse outcome without supplying a physical mechanism absent from the verse.