Quranic root
شرذم
sh · r · dh · m
A semantic orientation toward separation into detached portions: a detached small group, a piece of a thing, or things reduced to torn fragments.
The supplied evidence connects the Quranic people-group noun with being cut off or separated, while Classical usage extends the same imagery to individual portions and much-torn garments.
- Mufradāt · row 759
- Lane · entry 38266
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- Quran-attested forms
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- Quran senses
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- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
شِرْذِمَةٌ
shirdhimahun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
A detached small group or band of people.
The Quranic usage denotes a people-group characterized as separated or detached and few.
- Lane · entry 38266
- Mufradāt · row 759
Selected Quran examples
Quran 26:54word 3
“(are) certainly a band”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 26:54لَشِرْذِمَةٌۭ(are) certainly a band
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 2 Classical meanings
شِرْذِمَةٌ
A piece or portion of a thing.
The recorded plural forms are شَرَاذِمُ and شَرَاذِيمُ; the usage includes a portion of such things as a quince.
- Lane · entry 38266
شَرَاذِمُ
Old, worn-out, and much-torn, said of a garment or garments.
A conventional plural expression, as in ثَوْبٌ شَرَاذِمُ or ثِيَابٌ شَرَاذِمُ.
- Lane · entry 38266
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
Lane records a variant شِرْدِمَةٌ with unpointed د; it is not treated as a separate Quranic form.