Quran glossary · draft

نَمِيم

malicious gossip

Malicious gossip carried from person to person.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: نمم

Lemmas: نميم

Forms: نَمِيمٍ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

68:11

هَمَّازٍ مَّشَّآءٍۭ بِنَمِيمٍ

Why this meaning was chosen

The single family occurrence was reviewed on one page. It follows the description of a habitual fault-finder and depicts the condemned person going about with this harmful speech.