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ضرع

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The root ضرع (DrE) primarily describes a female animal's udder filling with milk before birth. It also means to lower, humble, or abase someone, often due to hardship like poverty or illness.

Root

ض-ر-ع

8

Total uses

8

Verses

4

Surahs

5

Forms

Root

ض-ر-ع

Root Meaning

The root ضرع (DrE) primarily describes a female animal's udder filling with milk before birth. It also means to lower, humble, or abase someone, often due to hardship like poverty or illness.

Derived forms

تَضَرُّعࣰ3يَتَضَرَّعُونَ2تَضَرَّعُواْ1يَضَّرَّعُونَ1ضَرِيعࣲ‏1

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📖 Ayaths where this word appears (8)

Al-An'am 6:42

يَتَضَرَّعُونَMeaning here: The root ضرع (DrE) primarily describes a female animal's udder filling with milk before birth. It also means to lower, humble, or abase someone, often due to hardship like poverty or illness.

We have sent already unto peoples that were before thee, and We visited them with tribulation and adversity, in order that they might grow humble

Al-An'am 6:43

تَضَرَّعُوا۟Meaning here: The root ضرع (DrE) primarily describes a female animal's udder filling with milk before birth. It also means to lower, humble, or abase someone, often due to hardship like poverty or illness.

If only, when Our disaster came on them, they had been humble! But their hearts were hardened and the devil made all that they used to do seem fair unto them

Al-An'am 6:63

تَضَرُّعًاMeaning here: The root ضرع (DrE) primarily describes a female animal's udder filling with milk before birth. It also means to lower, humble, or abase someone, often due to hardship like poverty or illness.

Say: Who delivereth you from the darkness of the land and the sea? Ye call upon Him humbly and in secret, (saying): If we are delivered from this (fear) we truly will be of the thankful

Al-A'raf 7:55

تَضَرُّعًاMeaning here: The root ضرع (DrE) primarily describes a female animal's udder filling with milk before birth. It also means to lower, humble, or abase someone, often due to hardship like poverty or illness.

(O mankind!) Call upon your Lord humbly and in secret. Lo! He loveth not aggressors

Al-A'raf 7:94

يَضَّرَّعُونَMeaning here: The root ضرع (DrE) primarily describes a female animal's udder filling with milk before birth. It also means to lower, humble, or abase someone, often due to hardship like poverty or illness.

And We sent no prophet unto any township but We did afflict its folk with tribulation and adversity that haply they might grow humble

Al-A'raf 7:205

تَضَرُّعًاMeaning here: The root ضرع (DrE) primarily describes a female animal's udder filling with milk before birth. It also means to lower, humble, or abase someone, often due to hardship like poverty or illness.

And do thou (O Muhammad) remember thy Lord within thyself humbly and with awe, below thy breath, at morn and evening. And be not thou of the neglectful

Al-Mu'minun 23:76

يَتَضَرَّعُونَMeaning here: The root ضرع (DrE) primarily describes a female animal's udder filling with milk before birth. It also means to lower, humble, or abase someone, often due to hardship like poverty or illness.

Already have We grasped them with punishment, but they humble not themselves unto their Lord, nor do they pray

Al-Ghashiyah 88:6

ضَرِيعٍMeaning here: The root ضرع (DrE) primarily describes a female animal's udder filling with milk before birth. It also means to lower, humble, or abase someone, often due to hardship like poverty or illness.

No food for them save bitter thorn-fruit