ضَرِيْعٍ
A word in the Arabic language will either be 1) a verb or 2) a noun or 3) a particle – ضَرِيْعٍ is a noun
A noun may either be 1) Definite or indefinite 2) Masculine or feminine 3) Singular, dual or plural 4) Nominative, accusative or genitive
ضَرِيْعٌ is the natural state of this indefinite noun and it changes to ضَرِيْعٍ due to: 1) a preposition that precedes it or 2) a possessed noun that precedes it or 7) it’s a noun of dependent declension a) نَعْتٌ / صِفَطٌ adjectives b) التَّوْكِيْدُ emphatic c) المَعْطُوْفٌ conjunction d) البَدَلُ synonym
Dry, bitter and thorny herbage
(According to al-Qiffal this kind of hellish drink and food is a melonym for utter hopelessness and abasement)
To humiliate, abase, object, humble, lower one’s self
| Grammatical analysis of ضَرِيْعٍ |
| اسْمٌ مَجْرُوْرٌ بِالكَسْرَةِ الزَّاهِرَةِ |
| نَكِرَةٌ | مُفْرَدٌ | مُذَكَّرٌ | مَجْرُوْرٌ | ض ر ع | بَاب فَتَحَ | فَعِيْلٌ | ضَرَعَ يَضْرَعُ | اسْمٌ | الاِسْمُ الْمُبَالَغَةُ |
| Indefinite | Singular | Masculine | Genitive | Root | Humbled | Pattern | ف | Noun | Intensive noun |
| التَّوَابِعُ | اسْمٌ فَاعِلٌ | ||||||||
| Dependent declension | Active participle | ||||||||
| الصِّفَاتُ المُشَبَّهَةُ بِأَسْمَاءِ الْفَاعِلِ | |||||||||
| Adjective resembling participles | |||||||||
| Surah/ | Below is the only verse in the holy Quran containing the noun | ضَرِيْعٍ |
| Verse | ||
| 88-6 | No food will there be for them but from a poisonous thorny plant | لَيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِنْ ضَرِيْعٍ |