Quran glossary · draft

عهن

wool

A fibrous woolen material capable of being fluffed apart.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: عهن

Lemmas: عهن

Forms: عِهْنِ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

70:9

وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ

101:5

وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ ٱلْمَنفُوشِ

Why this meaning was chosen

Both occurrences compare the mountains with the same material at the final upheaval. The second explicitly qualifies it as fluffed, supporting the fibrous-material core shared by both targets.