Quran glossary · draft

نُهَى

restraining discernment

A proposed faculty whose possessors recognize signs and whose family relation suggests internal restraint.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: نهي

Lemmas: نهى

Forms: نُّهَىٰ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

20:54

كُلُوا۟ وَٱرْعَوْا۟ أَنْعَٰمَكُمْ إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَـَٔايَٰتٍ لِّأُو۟لِى ٱلنُّهَىٰ

20:128

أَفَلَمْ يَهْدِ لَهُمْ كَمْ أَهْلَكْنَا قَبْلَهُم مِّنَ ٱلْقُرُونِ يَمْشُونَ فِى مَسَٰكِنِهِمْ إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَـَٔايَٰتٍ لِّأُو۟لِى ٱلنُّهَىٰ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered all 56 occurrences. Base form prohibition, form-VIII cessation, endpoint nouns, agents, and reciprocal restraint compose from a stopping boundary. The two نُهَى occurrences only identify possessors who receive signs; they do not internally define that faculty beyond the family relation. The proposed single rendering 'restraining discernment' therefore remains an explicit segment-linked user-review question.