Zah-Lam-Lam
1 word from this root family
Zah-Lam-Lam (ظ-ل-ل) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: ẓill (shade / shadow).
In the Quran, words built on this root occur 33 times in 31 verses, across 20 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:57. The form ظِلٌّ (shade / shadow) accounts for 14 of them.
Themes: Quranic
| Word | Meaning | Type | In the Quran | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ظِلٌّ ẓill | shade / shadow | noun, B1 | 14× | The Natural World in the Quran |
“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.
وَظَلَّلْنَا عَلَيْكُمُ ٱلْغَمَامَ وَأَنزَلْنَا عَلَيْكُمُ ٱلْمَنَّ وَٱلسَّلْوَىٰ ۖ كُلُوا۟ مِن طَيِّبَـٰتِ مَا رَزَقْنَـٰكُمْ ۖ وَمَا ظَلَمُونَا وَلَـٰكِن كَانُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَAnd We caused the white cloud to overshadow you and sent down on you the manna and the quails, (saying): Eat of the good things wherewith We have provided you- they wronged Us not, but they did wrong themselves.
هَلْ يَنظُرُونَ إِلَّآ أَن يَأْتِيَهُمُ ٱللَّهُ فِى ظُلَلٍ مِّنَ ٱلْغَمَامِ وَٱلْمَلَـٰٓئِكَةُ وَقُضِىَ ٱلْأَمْرُ ۚ وَإِلَى ٱللَّهِ تُرْجَعُ ٱلْأُمُورُWait they for naught else than that Allah should come unto them in the shadows of the clouds with the angels? Then the case would be already judged. All cases go back to Allah (for judgment).
وَٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّـٰلِحَـٰتِ سَنُدْخِلُهُمْ جَنَّـٰتٍ تَجْرِى مِن تَحْتِهَا ٱلْأَنْهَـٰرُ خَـٰلِدِينَ فِيهَآ أَبَدًا ۖ لَّهُمْ فِيهَآ أَزْوَٰجٌ مُّطَهَّرَةٌ ۖ وَنُدْخِلُهُمْ ظِلًّا ظَلِيلًاAnd as for those who believe and do good works, We shall make them enter Gardens underneath which rivers flow - to dwell therein for ever; there for them are pure companions - and We shall make them enter plenteous shade.
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).
Masculine noun. Plural: ظِلَالٌ (ẓilāl). Adjective: ظَلِيلٌ (providing dense shade). In desert Arabia, shade was the ultimate comfort - hence its prominence in Paradise descriptions.
Shade in Paradise is a recurring Quranic image. The Prophet ﷺ also described seven types of people who will be shaded by God's Throne on Judgment Day.