Quran glossary · draft

فرش

moth

A flying creature used collectively in the image of people dispersed on that day.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1

Roots: فرش

Lemmas: فراش

Forms: فَرَاشِ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

101:4

يَوْمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلْفَرَاشِ ٱلْمَبْثُوثِ

Where other meanings fail

bedding

101:4

يَوْمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلْفَرَاشِ ٱلْمَبْثُوثِ

Alternative: the people will be like scattered bedding

Research rendering: the people will be like scattered moths

The comparison requires animate collective movement, and the following participle separately supplies dispersal.