Quranic root
أمت
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An uneven or irregular feature in which one part is elevated or thickened while another is depressed or thinned.
Classical usage also extends the root to measuring or conjecturing quantity or distance and, in a derived verbal construction, tending toward or aiming at something; these developments are not automatically meanings of the Quranic noun.
- Maqāyīs · row 140
- Lane · entry 7176
- Lane · entry 7178
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
أَمْتٌ
ʾamtun
- 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.
An irregularity or unevenness of a surface: a rise, depression, or other deviation from levelness.
In the Quranic description of the leveled ground, in the construction لَا تَرَى فِيهَا عِوَجًا وَلَا أَمْتًا (20:107), it denotes physical unevenness rather than doubt or measurement.
- Lane · entry 7178
Selected Quran examples
Quran 20:107word 6
“any curve”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 20:107أَمْتًۭاany curve
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 14 Classical meanings
أَمَتَ
To measure, determine, compute, or conjecture a measure, quantity, or distance.
A Form I verbal use, including estimating the distance between a person and water or computing the number of people.
- Lane · entry 7176
أَمَتَ
To tend or direct oneself toward something; to aim at, seek, intend, or purpose it.
A Form I construction taking a thing as the object of one's direction or intention.
- Lane · entry 7176
أُمِّتَ بِالشَّرِّ
To be suspected of evil.
A passive Form II construction with بِالشَّرِّ.
- Lane · entry 7177
أَمْتٌ
A measure of distance or quantity.
Used in questions or statements asking how great a distance or measure is.
- Lane · entry 7178
أَمْتٌ
Doubt or uncertainty concerning a matter; disagreement or diversity of opinion about it.
Used in expressions denying doubt or disagreement about a matter.
- Lane · entry 7178
أَمْتٌ
Absence of indulgence or leniency in a matter.
An idiomatic interpretation of expressions in which there is no allowance or concession.
- Lane · entry 7178
أَمْتٌ
Laxity, uneven distension, or a crease or depression in a water-skin that is not completely or evenly filled.
Used of the irregular surface of a water-skin, including a portion that stands higher than another.
- Lane · entry 7178
أَمْتٌ
A fault, defect, imperfection, or blemish.
Attested of a mouth, a garment or piece of cloth, and a stone; the lexical use is not limited to any one of these objects.
- Lane · entry 7178
أَمْتٌ
Weakness, feebleness, languor, or remissness.
Used of a journey or pace lacking vigor or steadiness.
- Lane · entry 7178
أَمْتٌ
A good way, course, mode, or manner of acting or conduct.
A conventional use concerning conduct or a course of action.
- Lane · entry 7178
مُؤَمَّتٌ
Suspected of evil or the like.
An adjectival or participial use related to being regarded with suspicion.
- Lane · entry 7179
مُؤَمَّتٌ
A water-skin filled so that it is evenly distended.
Used of a water-skin whose filling has removed unequal laxity or surface depression.
- Lane · entry 7179
مَاءٌ مَأْمُوتٌ
Water whose distance has been measured or conjectured.
A lexical phrase describing water in relation to an estimated distance.
- Lane · entry 7180
مَأْمُوتٌ
Determined, defined, or definite; known or ascertained.
Used of a fixed or definite period and of a thing that is known.
- Lane · entry 7180
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic location is securely supplied by QAC as 20:107; historical citation notation in the lexical evidence is not independently converted into a modern verse reference.
No Mufradat evidence was supplied for this root; the Quranic sense is supported by direct lexical evidence, while the supplied English gloss is contextual only.