تَدْعُوا۟ مَنْ أَدْبَرَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ
Quran glossary · draft
أَدْبَرَ
turn away
Active Form IV turns the subject's back and withdraws from what was faced.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 3
Roots: دبر
Lemmas: أدبر
Forms: أَدْبَرَ
Occurrence examples (3 of 3)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.
ثُمَّ أَدْبَرَ وَٱسْتَكْبَرَ
ثُمَّ أَدْبَرَ يَسْعَىٰ
Why this meaning was chosen
All 44 family occurrences were reviewed on one page. Quran 12:25-28 anchors the physical rear through a shirt torn from behind; 15:65 uses plural backs for following a departing group; 6:45 and its parallels cut off the final remnant; 10:3 and 32:5 direct an affair through its ordered course; and 4:82 reflects beyond a text's surface to test its consequences. The aligned witnesses at 74:33 divide between Form IV أَدْبَرَ and Form I دَبَرَ, but both make the night recede, so the morphology varies without a semantic challenge. All 44 targets are partitioned by construction and derived form.