Rizwan Zubair

Root ط م ن ṭ-m-n

Quranic citations in this entry: 2 · اردو

ط م نṭ-m-n

— اِطْمَأَنَّ يَطْمَئِنُّ اِطْمِئْنَانًاiṭmaʾanna yaṭmaʾinnu iṭmiʾnānan (verb form (bāb) افعِلَالafʿilāl, augmented quadriliteral (rubāʿī mazīd)): for the heart to become tranquil and at rest; to settle.

مُطْمَئِنّmuṭmaʾinn pl. مُطْمَئِنَّةmuṭmaʾinnah (active participle, ism fāʿil): tranquil; settled. A morphological point: it is on the same pattern as اِشْمَأَزَّishmaʾazza and اِقْشَعَرَّiqshaʿarra — and this pattern carries the sense of a prevailing state. The lexicographers say that a metathesis (qalb makānī) has also been described in the original form طُمَأْنِيْنَةṭumaʾnīnah. 13 times in the Quran: ﴿أَلَا بِذِكْرِ اللّٰهِ تَطْمَئِنُّ الْقُلُوْبُ﴾ (Ar-Raʿd 13:28) and ﴿يٰۤأَيَّتُهَا النَّفْسُ الْمُطْمَئِنَّةُ﴾ (Al-Fajr 89:27).

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