وَتَحْسَبُهُمْ أَيْقَاظًا وَهُمْ رُقُودٌ وَنُقَلِّبُهُمْ ذَاتَ ٱلْيَمِينِ وَذَاتَ ٱلشِّمَالِ وَكَلْبُهُم بَٰسِطٌ ذِرَاعَيْهِ بِٱلْوَصِيدِ لَوِ ٱطَّلَعْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ لَوَلَّيْتَ مِنْهُمْ فِرَارًا وَلَمُلِئْتَ مِنْهُمْ رُعْبًا
Quran glossary · draft
ذرع
extended forelimb
An arm or forelimb extended across a space.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1
Roots: ذرع
Lemmas: ذراع
Forms: ذِرَاعَيْ
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Why this meaning was chosen
ذِرَاع names an extended forelimb and the cubit unit derived from its span. ذَرْع names measured extent in the chain description, while the expression ضَاقَ بِهِمْ ذَرْعًا depicts Lot's available reach or capacity becoming too narrow for the crisis. The concrete limb, fixed measure, and figurative scope remain internally connected.