# Dad-Ha-Vav — ضحو (DHw)

> Occurs in 7 verses of the Quran.

- **Source:** https://quran.so/root/DHw

- **Meaning:** To become forenoon time, To rise (sun), To become bright, To come to light, To emerge, To become clear, To be bright, To be clear, To sunrise
- **Derived forms:** تَضْحَىٰ (1) · ضُحًى (6)

## Verses containing this root

### 7. Surah Al-A'raf, Verse 98

- **Form in this verse:** ضُحًۭى — ḍuḥan · "(in) daylight"
  - **Grammar:** adverb of time · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

اَوَاَمِنَ اَهْلُ الْقُرٰٓى اَنْ يَأْتِيَهُمْ بَأْسُنَا ضُحًى وَهُمْ يَلْعَبُونَ

Awa amina ahlu alqura an ya/tiyahumba/suna duhan wahum yalAAaboon

Or did the people of the cities feel secure from Our might coming upon them at midday while they played?

_https://quran.so/surah-al-araf/verse-98.md_

### 20. Surah Taha, Verse 59

- **Form in this verse:** ضُحًۭى — ḍuḥan · "(at) forenoon"
  - **Grammar:** adverb of time · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

قَالَ مَوْعِدُكُمْ يَوْمُ الزّ۪ينَةِ وَاَنْ يُحْشَرَ النَّاسُ ضُحًى

Qala mawAAidukum yawmu azzeenatiwaan yuhshara annasu duha

He said: “Your appointment is the day of the festival; and let the people be gathered at midday.”

_https://quran.so/surah-taha/verse-59.md_

### 20. Surah Taha, Verse 119

- **Form in this verse:** تَضْحَىٰ — taḍḥā · "exposed to the sun's heat"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 2nd person, masculine, singular · present tense

وَاَنَّكَ لَا تَظْمَؤُ۬ا ف۪يهَا وَلَا تَضْحٰى

Waannaka la tathmaofeeha wala tadha

“And that thou suffer neither thirst therein, nor the heat of the sun.”

_https://quran.so/surah-taha/verse-119.md_

### 79. Surah An-Nazi'at, Verse 29

- **Form in this verse:** ضُحَىٰهَا — ḍuḥāhā · "its brightness"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case

وَاَغْطَشَ لَيْلَهَا وَاَخْرَجَ ضُحٰيهَاۖ

Waaghtasha laylaha waakhraja duhaha

And He made dark its night, and brought forth its morning.

_https://quran.so/surah-an-naziat/verse-29.md_

### 79. Surah An-Nazi'at, Verse 46

- **Form in this verse:** ضُحَىٰهَا — ḍuḥāhā · "a morning thereof"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case

كَاَنَّهُمْ يَوْمَ يَرَوْنَهَا لَمْ يَلْبَثُٓوا اِلَّا عَشِيَّةً اَوْ ضُحٰيهَا

Kaannahum yawma yarawnaha lamyalbathoo illa AAashiyyatan aw duhaha

It will be, the day they see it, as though they had not tarried save a day’s end or a morning thereof.

_https://quran.so/surah-an-naziat/verse-46.md_

### 91. Surah Ash-Shams, Verse 1

- **Form in this verse:** وَضُحَىٰهَا — waḍuḥāhā · "and its brightness"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case

وَالشَّمْسِ وَضُحٰيهَاۙۖ

Washshamsi waduhaha

By the sun and its morning brightness!

_https://quran.so/surah-ash-shams/verse-1.md_

### 93. Surah Ad-Duhaa, Verse 1

- **Form in this verse:** وَٱلضُّحَىٰ — wal-ḍuḥā · "By the morning brightness"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case

وَالضُّحٰىۙ

Wadduha

By the morning light!

_https://quran.so/surah-ad-duhaa/verse-1.md_

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