Quran glossary · draft

ظَمَأ

thirst

The experienced bodily need for water.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: ظمأ

Lemmas: ظمأ

Forms: ظَمَأٌ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

9:120

مَا كَانَ لِأَهْلِ ٱلْمَدِينَةِ وَمَنْ حَوْلَهُم مِّنَ ٱلْأَعْرَابِ أَن يَتَخَلَّفُوا۟ عَن رَّسُولِ ٱللَّهِ وَلَا يَرْغَبُوا۟ بِأَنفُسِهِمْ عَن نَّفْسِهِۦ ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمْ لَا يُصِيبُهُمْ ظَمَأٌ وَلَا نَصَبٌ وَلَا مَخْمَصَةٌ فِى سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ وَلَا يَطَـُٔونَ مَوْطِئًا يَغِيظُ ٱلْكُفَّارَ وَلَا يَنَالُونَ مِنْ عَدُوٍّ نَّيْلًا إِلَّا كُتِبَ لَهُم بِهِۦ عَمَلٌ صَٰلِحٌ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يُضِيعُ أَجْرَ ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered all three occurrences. The noun is coordinated with fatigue and hunger as an endured physical condition, the Form I predicate denies that condition in the garden, and the state noun identifies the person who mistakes a mirage for water. Water-seeking behavior at 24:39 anchors the shared bodily need directly. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule. No protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.