Quran glossary · draft

ٱلظَّمْـَٔانُ

thirsty person

A person presently experiencing the need for water.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: ظمأ

Lemmas: ظمآن

Forms: ظَّمْـَٔانُ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

24:39

وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوٓا۟ أَعْمَٰلُهُمْ كَسَرَابٍۭ بِقِيعَةٍ يَحْسَبُهُ ٱلظَّمْـَٔانُ مَآءً حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا جَآءَهُۥ لَمْ يَجِدْهُ شَيْـًٔا وَوَجَدَ ٱللَّهَ عِندَهُۥ فَوَفَّىٰهُ حِسَابَهُۥ وَٱللَّهُ سَرِيعُ ٱلْحِسَابِ

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.