وَذَا ٱلنُّونِ إِذ ذَّهَبَ مُغَٰضِبًا فَظَنَّ أَن لَّن نَّقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ فَنَادَىٰ فِى ٱلظُّلُمَٰتِ أَن لَّآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّآ أَنتَ سُبْحَٰنَكَ إِنِّى كُنتُ مِنَ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ
Quran glossary · draft
ذَا ٱلنُّونِ
the fish
The fish in the epithet identifying Jonah through his swallowing and deliverance narrative.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1
Roots: نون
Lemmas: نون
Forms: نُّونِ
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Why this meaning was chosen
Quran-internal review covered the sole occurrence of نُون at 21:87. The prophet is called ذَا ٱلنُّون, then his angry departure, cry in the darknesses, confession, and rescue are recalled. Quran-internal narrative parallels call Jonah the companion of the حُوت and describe that fish swallowing him before his deliverance, which anchors نُون as the fish in the epithet. The target is definite masculine genitive singular in the possessive title. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.