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ض-ح-و

Dad-Ha-Waw

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Dad-Ha-Waw (ض-ح-و) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: ḍuḥā (morning light / forenoon).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 7 times in 7 verses, across 5 of the 114 suras. The first is in 7:98.

Themes: Quranic

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
ضُحَى
ḍuḥā
morning light / forenoonnoun, B1The Natural World in the Quran

In the Quran

أَوَأَمِنَ أَهْلُ ٱلْقُرَىٰٓ أَن يَأْتِيَهُم بَأْسُنَا ضُحًى وَهُمْ يَلْعَبُونَ

Or are the people of the townships then secure from the coming of Our wrath upon them in the daytime while they play?

Quran 7:98
قَالَ مَوْعِدُكُمْ يَوْمُ ٱلزِّينَةِ وَأَن يُحْشَرَ ٱلنَّاسُ ضُحًى

(Moses) said: Your tryst shall be the day of the feast, and let the people assemble when the sun hath risen high.

Quran 20:59
وَأَنَّكَ لَا تَظْمَؤُا۟ فِيهَا وَلَا تَضْحَىٰ

And that thou thirstest not therein nor art exposed to the sun's heat.

Quran 20:119

Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).

Word cards with examples

B1noun
ضُحَى
ḍuḥā

morning light / forenoon

Example
وَالضُّحَى وَاللَّيْلِ إِذَا سَجَى
waḍ-ḍuḥā wal-layli idhā sajā
By the morning light and the night when it covers with darkness (93:1-2)
Grammar

Feminine noun (alif maqṣūra). Surah aḍ-Ḍuḥā (93). Refers to the time after sunrise when the light brightens. Also a prayer time (ṣalāt aḍ-ḍuḥā).

Culture

Surah aḍ-Ḍuḥā was revealed to comfort the Prophet ﷺ during a period of silence in revelation - a message of hope after difficulty.

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