Quranic root
هضم
h · ḍ · m
A root orientation of breaking, pressing, and drawing parts into one another.
The evidence develops this physical notion into softening and digestion, compact interpenetration in fruit, and figurative diminution or deprivation of a due.
- Maqāyīs · row 4903
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- Quran senses
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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.
هَضِيم
haḍīm
- Part of speech
- Adjective
- 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.
Compacted, with its parts entering into one another as though crushed together.
In 26:148, said of the date-palm fruit or inflorescence and describing its parts as interpenetrating.
- Mufradāt · row 1525
Selected Quran examples
Quran 26:148word 4
“soft”
هَضْم
haḍm
- 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.
Wrongful diminution or deprivation of what is due; injustice by reducing another’s due.
In 20:112, paired with ظلم and used figuratively for deprivation or injustice, not for physical digestion.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 20:112word 11
“deprivation”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 12 Classical meanings
هَضْم
Crushing or breaking a soft substance.
The physical action underlying the root’s descriptions of compacting, softening, and breaking down.
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هَضَمَ لَهُ
To relinquish or leave another a portion of one’s own right.
A conventional construction concerning the surrender of part of a due or entitlement.
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اِنْهَضَمَ
To melt or dissolve after congealing; to break down, soften, or become easy to digest.
Intransitive Form VII; reported of congealed matter, fruit, and food in the supplied attestations.
- Lane · entry 17119
اِنْهَضَام
A depression or sinking of the chest.
An anatomical usage reported with qualification in the supplied attestation.
- Lane · entry 17119
اِهْتَضَمَ
To crop the tops of shrubs.
A specialized Form VIII usage concerning removal of the upper parts of shrubs.
- Lane · entry 17120
هَضَم
Contraction of the sides, lankness of the belly, or smallness of the flank.
In a horse, this bodily conformation is described as a fault.
- Lane · entry 17121
هَاضُوم
A medicine or other agent that digests food; a digestive preparation.
A noun for something used to aid digestion.
- Lane · entry 17123
هَضُوم
Highly digestive or able to digest food readily.
Used of a stomach or belly with strong digestive capacity.
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مِهْضَم
Compressed or slender in the flank.
Used of the side or flank, especially the كَشْح.
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هَضِيمَةُ الكَشْحَيْنِ
A woman described as delicate or slender in the two flanks.
A conventional bodily description specifying the two flanks.
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مُتَهَضِّم
An unjust or oppressive person.
A derived description for one characterized by wrongdoing.
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هِضْم؛ أَهْضَام
A hollow or recessed part of a valley; أَهْضَام is the plural.
A geographical usage for the depressed interiors of valleys.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The supplied contextual rendering “soft” for هَضِيم in 26:148 is treated as support for the compacted/interpenetrating interpretation, not as a separate lexical sense.
The anatomical sense associated with اِنْهَضَامُ الزَّوْر is qualified in the supplied Classical attestation and is retained separately from the Quranic senses.