Quran glossary · draft

يَنْأَوْنَ عَنْهُ

keep away

To remain personally distant from someone or something one also discourages others from approaching.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: نأي

Lemmas: نأى

Forms: يَنْـَٔ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

6:26

وَهُمْ يَنْهَوْنَ عَنْهُ وَيَنْـَٔوْنَ عَنْهُ وَإِن يُهْلِكُونَ إِلَّآ أَنفُسَهُمْ وَمَا يَشْعُرُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered the full three-occurrence family. The editable target at 6:26 says people forbid others from the message or messenger while themselves keeping away from it or him. The protected parallel occurrences at 17:83 and 41:51 describe a person turning aside and drawing away with his side after receiving favor; they were inspected under MH-naa-drew-away but not edited. All three establish self-distancing, with prepositions and body posture specifying the relation. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was mutated and no exact lexical collision was found.