# Dad-Ra-Ayn — ضرع (DrE)

> Occurs in 8 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To humiliate, abase, object, humble, lower one's self, humility/submissiveness. Dry, bitter, thorny herbage.
- **Derived forms:** تَضَرَّعُ (1) · تَضَرُّع (3) · ضَرِيع (1) · يَتَضَرَّعُ (3)

## Verses containing this root

### 6. Surah Al-An'am, Verse 42

- **Form in this verse:** يَتَضَرَّعُونَ — yataḍarraʿūna · "humble themselves"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of tefa'ul · 3rd person, masculine, plural · present tense

وَلَقَدْ اَرْسَلْـنَٓا اِلٰٓى اُمَمٍ مِنْ قَبْلِكَ فَاَخَذْنَاهُمْ بِالْبَأْسَٓاءِ وَالضَّرَّٓاءِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَضَرَّعُونَ

Walaqad arsalna ila omamin minqablika faakhathnahum bilba/sa-i waddarra-ilaAAallahum yatadarraAAoon

And We have sent to communities before thee; then We took them with affliction and adversity, that they might humble themselves.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-anam/verse-42.md_

### 6. Surah Al-An'am, Verse 43

- **Form in this verse:** تَضَرَّعُوا۟ — taḍarraʿū · "they humbled themselves"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 3rd person, masculine, plural · past tense

فَلَوْلَٓا اِذْ جَٓاءَهُمْ بَأْسُنَا تَضَرَّعُوا وَلٰكِنْ قَسَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ وَزَيَّنَ لَهُمُ الشَّيْطَانُ مَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ

Falawla ith jaahumba/suna tadarraAAoo walakin qasat quloobuhumwazayyana lahumu ashshaytanu ma kanooyaAAmaloon

Oh, that when Our disaster came upon them they had but humbled themselves! But their hearts hardened, and the satan made fair to them what they were doing.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-anam/verse-43.md_

### 6. Surah Al-An'am, Verse 63

- **Form in this verse:** تَضَرُّعًۭا — taḍarruʿan · "humbly"
  - **Grammar:** noun · pattern of tefa'ul · noun-verb · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

قُلْ مَنْ يُنَجّ۪يكُمْ مِنْ ظُلُمَاتِ الْبَرِّ وَالْبَحْرِ تَدْعُونَهُ تَضَرُّعاً وَخُفْيَةًۚ  لَئِنْ اَنْجٰينَا مِنْ هٰذِه۪ لَنَكُونَنَّ مِنَ الشَّاكِر۪ينَ

Qul man yunajjeekum min thulumatialbarri walbahri tadAAoonahu tadarruAAanwakhufyatan la-in anjana min hathihilanakoonanna mina ashshakireen

Say thou: “Who delivers you from the darknesses of the land and the sea? You call to Him humbly and in secret: ‘If He delivers us from this, we will be among the grateful.’”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-anam/verse-63.md_

### 7. Surah Al-A'raf, Verse 55

- **Form in this verse:** تَضَرُّعًۭا — taḍarruʿan · "humbly"
  - **Grammar:** noun · pattern of tefa'ul · noun-verb · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

اُدْعُوا رَبَّكُمْ تَضَرُّعاً وَخُفْيَةًۜ اِنَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّ الْمُعْتَد۪ينَۚ

OdAAoo rabbakum tadarruAAanwakhufyatan innahu la yuhibbu almuAAtadeen

Call to your Lord humbly and in secret. He loves not the transgressors

_https://quran.so/surah-al-araf/verse-55.md_

### 7. Surah Al-A'raf, Verse 94

- **Form in this verse:** يَضَّرَّعُونَ — yaḍḍarraʿūna · "(become) humble"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of tefa'ul · 3rd person, masculine, plural · present tense

وَمَٓا اَرْسَلْنَا ف۪ي قَرْيَةٍ مِنْ نَبِيٍّ اِلَّٓا اَخَذْنَٓا اَهْلَهَا بِالْبَأْسَٓاءِ وَالضَّرَّٓاءِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَضَّرَّعُونَ

Wama arsalna fee qaryatin minnabiyyin illa akhathna ahlaha bilba/sa-iwaddarra-i laAAallahum yaddarraAAoon

And We sent not to a city a prophet save that We took its people with affliction and adversity, that they might humble themselves.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-araf/verse-94.md_

### 7. Surah Al-A'raf, Verse 205

- **Form in this verse:** تَضَرُّعًۭا — taḍarruʿan · "humbly"
  - **Grammar:** noun · pattern of tefa'ul · noun-verb · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

وَاذْكُرْ رَبَّكَ ف۪ي نَفْسِكَ تَضَرُّعاً وَخ۪يفَةً وَدُونَ الْجَهْرِ مِنَ الْقَوْلِ بِالْغُدُوِّ وَالْاٰصَالِ وَلَا تَكُنْ مِنَ الْغَافِل۪ينَ

Wathkur rabbaka fee nafsikatadarruAAan wakheefatan wadoona aljahri mina alqawli bilghuduwwiwal-asali wala takun mina alghafileen

And remember thou thy Lord within thy soul in humility and fear; and without publicity of speech, morning and evening; and be thou not among the heedless.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-araf/verse-205.md_

### 23. Surah Al-Mu'minun, Verse 76

- **Form in this verse:** يَتَضَرَّعُونَ — yataḍarraʿūna · "they supplicate humbly"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of tefa'ul · 3rd person, masculine, plural · present tense

وَلَقَدْ اَخَذْنَاهُمْ بِالْعَذَابِ فَمَا اسْتَكَانُوا لِرَبِّهِمْ وَمَا يَتَضَرَّعُونَ

Walaqad akhathnahum bilAAathabifama istakanoo lirabbihim wama yatadarraAAoon

(And We seized them with the punishment[...], but they yielded not to their Lord, nor humbled themselves.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-muminun/verse-76.md_

### 88. Surah Al-Ghashiyah, Verse 6

- **Form in this verse:** ضَرِيعٍۢ — ḍarīʿin · "a bitter thorny plant"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case · indefinite

لَيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ اِلَّا مِنْ ضَر۪يعٍۙ

Laysa lahum taAAamun illamin dareeAA

They have no food save of poisonous thorns:

_https://quran.so/surah-al-ghashiyah/verse-6.md_

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