Quranic root
كمه
k · m · h
The root is centered on blindness, especially blindness present from birth, with a related extension to obscurity or gloom.
The lexical evidence distinguishes congenital blindness from blindness or loss of an eye arising after an affliction, and also preserves a Classical adjectival use for land enveloped in gloom.
- Maqāyīs · row 4038
- Mufradāt · row 1269
- Lane · entry 32954
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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.
أَكْمَه
ʾakmah
- Part of speech
- Adjective · substantivized noun
- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Blind from birth; a person born without sight.
In the Quran, the adjective is used substantivally with the definite article, including in the expression for healing the blind-born.
- Mufradāt · row 1269
Selected Quran examples
Quran 3:49word 25
“the blind”
Quran 5:110word 40
“the born blind”
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 2 Classical meanings
أَكْمَه
A person whose eye or sight has been lost after birth.
An extended Classical use for acquired loss of an eye or sight, distinct from the congenital-blindness sense established for the Quranic form.
- Mufradāt · row 1269
كَمْهَاءٌ
Of land: enveloped in gloom or obscurity; overcast.
An adjectival description specifically applied to land.
- Lane · entry 32954
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic contextual gloss varies between “the blind” and “the born blind,” while the supplied lexical discussion specifically supports blindness from birth.
Lane equates the land adjective with مُغَمَّةٌ and مِغَمَّةٌ but does not supply the referenced غم entry here; “overcast” and “gloomy” are therefore broad renderings of that equivalence.