Quran glossary · draft

ٱلْأَوْلَيَانِ

the two nearer claimants

The frozen dual form identifies two persons with the nearer claim; the aligned Shubah witness has a materially different plural form and remains a user-review issue.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: ولي

Lemmas: أوليان

Forms: أَوْلَيَٰنِ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

5:107

فَإِنْ عُثِرَ عَلَىٰٓ أَنَّهُمَا ٱسْتَحَقَّآ إِثْمًا فَـَٔاخَرَانِ يَقُومَانِ مَقَامَهُمَا مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱسْتَحَقَّ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلْأَوْلَيَٰنِ فَيُقْسِمَانِ بِٱللَّهِ لَشَهَٰدَتُنَآ أَحَقُّ مِن شَهَٰدَتِهِمَا وَمَا ٱعْتَدَيْنَآ إِنَّآ إِذًا لَّمِنَ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ

Why this meaning was chosen

One Quran-internal nextness core is tested across all 232 family occurrences. Protected prior drafts remain untouched. Form II composes causation, Form V self-orientation, nouns the close relation or state, and أَوْلَى comparative nearness; contextual rules supply turn-away, alliance, guardianship, friendship, succession, and priority renderings without multiplying lexical cores. Seven aligned witnesses were consulted only at the ambiguous dual, abstract nouns, and warning formulae.