Quran glossary · draft

أَعْنَتَ

impose hardship

To cause another to undergo burdensome difficulty.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: عنت

Lemmas: أعنت

Forms: أَعْنَتَ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

2:220

فِى ٱلدُّنْيَا وَٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ وَيَسْـَٔلُونَكَ عَنِ ٱلْيَتَٰمَىٰ قُلْ إِصْلَاحٌ لَّهُمْ خَيْرٌ وَإِن تُخَالِطُوهُمْ فَإِخْوَٰنُكُمْ وَٱللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ ٱلْمُفْسِدَ مِنَ ٱلْمُصْلِحِ وَلَوْ شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ لَأَعْنَتَكُمْ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَزِيزٌ حَكِيمٌ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered all five occurrences. The three Form I predicates describe hardship undergone by the addressed group, Form IV makes Allah the possible causer of that hardship, and the sole noun names a feared condition in the marriage ruling at 4:25. Morphology therefore supports one hardship core with undergoer, causative, and nominal realizations. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule. The precise contextual extent of the noun at 4:25 remains open for user review; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.