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Quranic root

زمهر

z · m · h · r

The supplied evidence suggests a semantic field of striking intensity, especially severe cold and brilliant manifestation, extended to strongly marked facial and emotional states.

The attested branches range from intense cold and shining brightness to reddened eyes, facial contraction or tooth-displaying laughter, and violent anger. No Maqāyīs or Mufradāt material is supplied for a fuller root-level historical development.

  • Lane · entry 31640
  • Lane · entry 31641
  • Lane · entry 31642
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Quran-attested forms
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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.

زَمْهَرِير

zamharīr

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.

  1. Intense or hurting cold.

    In the occurrence at 76:13, the noun is explained as severe or hurting cold, with a simpler reading of cold also reported.

    • Lane · entry 31641
    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 76:13word 10

    “freezing cold”

  2. The moon.

    A reported alternative interpretation of the noun in 76:13; this reading is distinct from the cold interpretation and is also recorded as a dialectal lexical meaning.

    • Lane · entry 31641

Occurrences in the Quran

Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.

  • 76:13زَمْهَرِيرًۭاfreezing cold
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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

  • اِزْمَهَرَّ

    To shine and become intensely bright.

    Attested of stars.

    • Lane · entry 31640

  • اِزْمَهَرَّ

    Of the eye, to become red through anger.

    The usage is described in connection with distressing events.

    • Lane · entry 31640

  • اِزْمَهَرَّ

    Of the face, to grin so as to display the teeth, or to become contracted into a stern, austere, or morose expression.

    • Lane · entry 31640

  • اِزْمَهَرَّ

    To become intensely cold.

    Attested of a day.

    • Lane · entry 31640

  • مُزْمَهِرّ

    Laughing so as to show the teeth.

    The expression is associated with the shining appearance of stars.

    • Lane · entry 31642

  • مُزْمَهِرّ

    Angry; violently angry.

    • Lane · entry 31642

Cautions

Points that affect how this root should be read.

  • The reading “the moon” for 76:13 is reported as an alternative; the other supplied readings understand the verse as referring to hurting or ordinary cold.

  • No Maqāyīs or Mufradāt entry is supplied, so the root-level semantic development is limited to the attested Lane evidence.