Quran glossary · draft

دثر

wrap oneself

To wrap oneself closely in a covering.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: دثر

Lemmas: مدثر

Forms: مُدَّثِّرُ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

74:1

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلْمُدَّثِّرُ

Why this meaning was chosen

The sole occurrence is a form V active participle used as direct address. The reflexive derived form supplies self-envelopment compositionally, while the participle identifies the addressee by the resulting wrapped state.