امم

Dictionary definitions on Arabic Almanac


Appears 107 times in the Quran.

  1. These are they against whom the word has proved true among nations of the jinn and the men that have already passed away before them; surely they are losers.

  2. Those who keep aloof from the great sins and the indecencies but the passing idea; surely your Lord is liberal in forgiving. He knows you best when He brings you forth from the earth and when you are embryos in the wombs of your mothers; therefore do not attribute purity to your souls; He knows him best who guards (against evil).

  3. (As for) those of you who put away their wives by likening their backs to the backs of their mothers, they are not their mothers; their mothers are no others than those who gave them birth; and most surely they utter a hateful word and a falsehood and most surely Allah is Pardoning, Forgiving.

  4. He it is Who raised among the inhabitants of Mecca an Messenger from among themselves, who recites to them His communications and purifies them, and teaches them the Book and the Wisdom, although they were before certainly in clear error,

  5. Nay! man desires to give the lie to what is before him.

  6. And his mother and his father,

  7. His abode shall be the abyss.