Quran glossary · draft

أَثْل

tamarisk

A tree present among the reduced vegetation of the punished community's gardens.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: أثل

Lemmas: أثل

Forms: أَثْلٍ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

34:16

فَأَعْرَضُوا۟ فَأَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَيْلَ ٱلْعَرِمِ وَبَدَّلْنَٰهُم بِجَنَّتَيْهِمْ جَنَّتَيْنِ ذَوَاتَىْ أُكُلٍ خَمْطٍ وَأَثْلٍ وَشَىْءٍ مِّن سِدْرٍ قَلِيلٍ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered the sole occurrence of أَثْل at 34:16. After Sheba turns away and the flood comes, its two gardens are replaced by two bearing bitter produce, أَثْل, and a little lote growth. Coordination within the replacement gardens securely establishes a plant or tree associated with their diminished condition. The ayah supplies no independent leaf, fruit, form, or habitat marker that can verify a precise species, so tamarisk remains provisional for user review. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.