Quranic root
قمطر
q · m · ṭ · r
The supplied evidence centers on forceful severity: قَمْطَرِير describes a distressful or calamitous condition, especially one that makes the brow knit.
The evidence records a severity branch alongside a separately attested nominal branch for a repository of writings and a Form IV verb meaning to become distressful. No Maqāyīs entry is supplied to establish a fuller historical root development.
- Lane · entry 8969
- Lane · entry 8966
- Lane · entry 8968
- Mufradāt · row 1209
- 1
- Quran-attested forms
- 1
- Quran senses
- 1
- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
قَمْطَرِير
qamṭarīr
- 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.
Distressful, calamitous, intensely severe; of a day, one that makes the brow knit.
Quran-attested in the expression describing a distressful or calamitous day. The brow-knitting wording explains the effect or character of the severity rather than imposing a restriction on the kind of thing described.
- Lane · entry 8969
- Mufradāt · row 1209
Selected Quran examples
Quran 76:10word 7
“and distressful”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 76:10قَمْطَرِيرًۭاand distressful
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 3 Classical meanings
إِقْمَطَرَّ
To become distressful or calamitous.
Classical Form IV verb; the supplied lexical example has a day as its subject.
- Lane · entry 8966
قِمَطْرٌ
A repository for books or writings, made of woven reeds and resembling a safat.
A nominal lexical branch, with the recorded plural قَمَاطِرُ.
- Lane · entry 8968
قَمْطَرِيرٌ
Intense evil.
Attested in the Classical collocation شَرٌّ قَمْطَرِيرٌ; this broader collocational use is kept separate from the Quranic description of a distressful day.
- Lane · entry 8969
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic occurrence is the inflected form قَمْطَرِيرًا; the public headword is normalized to the adjective citation form قَمْطَرِير.