Quran glossary · draft

وَطْء الليل

firm nocturnal engagement

Firm engagement achieved during the arising of night.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: وطأ

Lemmas: وطء

Forms: وَطْـًٔا

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

73:6

إِنَّ نَاشِئَةَ ٱلَّيْلِ هِىَ أَشَدُّ وَطْـًٔا وَأَقْوَمُ قِيلًا

Why this meaning was chosen

All six occurrences were compared. Form I treads a route, land, or people and the place noun marks the resulting foothold. Form III aligns a manipulated calendar count with the number Allah made inviolable. The action noun at 73:6 applies the core to the night's arising, but whether it foregrounds footing, impact, inner concord, or combined firmness remains unresolved. No Quran-internal contradiction requires a collision, and no aligned reading divergence is present.