Quran glossary · draft

غطش

night darkening

Causing the night associated with the sky to become dark.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: غطش

Lemmas: أغطش

Forms: أَغْطَشَ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

79:29

وَأَغْطَشَ لَيْلَهَا وَأَخْرَجَ ضُحَىٰهَا

Why this meaning was chosen

The sole target is a third-person masculine singular Form IV perfect whose object is the sky's night. Its coordination with bringing out the sky's morning brightness establishes a direct contrast between imposed darkness and emerging light.