Quran glossary · draft

ذُو مَتْرَبَة

dust-bound destitution

A state of destitution marked by being brought down to the dust.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: ترب

Lemmas: متربة

Forms: مَتْرَبَةٍ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

90:16

أَوْ مِسْكِينًا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal comparison across all 22 occurrences makes تُرَاب the dominant core: it lies on stone, receives something buried, serves as the material of human creation, and names the postmortem state repeatedly paired with bones. مَتْرَبَة denotes a needy person's dust-bound condition and remains same-core. Three أَتْرَاب occurrences instead qualify Paradise companions as mutually matched, while تَرَائِب at 86:7 names an anatomical locus paired with the back structure; these exact sets cannot denote loose ground matter in their clauses and are isolated as lexical collisions. Their narrower profiles remain reviewable.