Quranic root
ذأم
dh · ʾ · m
The root centers on aversion joined with fault, blame, or disparagement.
This orientation develops into blaming or finding fault, despising and abasing, and associated expulsion; Form IV extends the range to frightening or compelling someone against his will.
- Maqāyīs · row 1879
- Lane · entry 21290
- Lane · entry 21291
- Lane · entry 21294
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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.
مَذْءُوم
madhʾūm
- Part of speech
- Passive participle
- 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.
One who is blamed, reproached, or held at fault.
Quranic passive-participle use in the occurrence at 7:18; it emphasizes the person's blameworthiness or disgrace. The corresponding Form I lexical branch includes blaming and finding fault.
- Lane · entry 21294
- Mufradāt · row 497
Selected Quran examples
Quran 7:18word 4
“disgraced”
One who is driven away or banished.
An alternative interpretation of the same Quranic passive participle at 7:18, emphasizing expulsion rather than blame.
- Lane · entry 21294
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 7:18مَذْءُومًۭاdisgraced
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 6 Classical meanings
ذَأَمَ
To despise or scorn; to abase or humiliate.
Form I verb. Reported combined uses include despising while blaming, driving the object away, or beating the object.
- Lane · entry 21290
ذَأَمَ
To repay or requite someone.
A distinct Form I verbal use equivalent to repaying or requiting.
- Lane · entry 21290
أَذْأَمَ
To frighten or terrify someone.
Form IV derived verb.
- Lane · entry 21291
أَذْأَمَ
To compel someone, against his will, to do something.
Form IV construction used with عَلَى to express compelled action against the person's will.
- Lane · entry 21291
ذَأْمٌ
A vice, fault, defect, or similar blemish.
Substantive noun for a fault or defect; the form is also recorded as the verbal noun of ذَأَمَ.
- Lane · entry 21292
ذَأْمَةٌ
A word or utterance.
Attested in the idiom مَا سَمِعْتُ لَهُ ذَأْمَةً, meaning that no word was heard from him.
- Lane · entry 21293
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
Lane's printed Quran citation for this form appears as historical '[vii. 17]' and is not converted into a modern verse location; the supplied QAC occurrence and Quran-focused evidence securely identify the occurrence as 7:18.