Quran glossary · draft

قَرْيَتَان

two settlements

The dual noun denotes exactly two inhabited settlements.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: قري

Lemmas: قرية

Forms: قَرْيَتَيْنِ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

43:31

وَقَالُوا۟ لَوْلَا نُزِّلَ هَٰذَا ٱلْقُرْءَانُ عَلَىٰ رَجُلٍ مِّنَ ٱلْقَرْيَتَيْنِ عَظِيمٍ

Why this meaning was chosen

All fifty-seven family occurrences were reviewed on one bounded page. Thirty-six records are protected by the existing NEEDS_REVIEW hypothesis MH-frontier-qaryah-settlement and remain untouched; the artifact partitions only the twenty-one frozen targets. One target is singular قَرْيَة, nineteen are broken-plural قُرَى, and one is dual قَرْيَتَيْن. Number, case, definiteness, possession, construct relation, governing preposition, and ordinary place-to-inhabitants metonymy compose locally. The singular oppressed settlement, the multiple settlements whose residents believe, are warned, are destroyed, or are fortified, and the two settlements proposed as sources of a notable man all preserve one inhabited-place core. No compacted candidates, aligned reading payload, collision, or unresolved issue remains.