Quran glossary · draft

أَتْرَاب

well-matched companions

Companions mutually matched in a shared personal quality.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 3

Roots: ترب

Lemmas: أتراب

Forms: أَتْرَابًا · أَتْرَابٌ

Occurrence examples (3 of 3)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.

38:52

وَعِندَهُمْ قَٰصِرَٰتُ ٱلطَّرْفِ أَتْرَابٌ

56:37

عُرُبًا أَتْرَابًا

78:33

وَكَوَاعِبَ أَتْرَابًا

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal comparison across all 22 occurrences makes تُرَاب the dominant core: it lies on stone, receives something buried, serves as the material of human creation, and names the postmortem state repeatedly paired with bones. مَتْرَبَة denotes a needy person's dust-bound condition and remains same-core. Three أَتْرَاب occurrences instead qualify Paradise companions as mutually matched, while تَرَائِب at 86:7 names an anatomical locus paired with the back structure; these exact sets cannot denote loose ground matter in their clauses and are isolated as lexical collisions. Their narrower profiles remain reviewable.