# Ha-Mim-Elif — حما (HmA)

> Occurs in 4 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** Black and fetid mud, to cleanse the well of it [black, fetid mud], to be mixed with black and fetid mud, to be rendered turbid and altered in odour, to be angry with someone, paternal uncle, a certain plant that grows in Nejd in the sands or in the plain and soft land, a man of an evil eye, to injure with the evil eye.
- **Derived forms:** حَمَإ (3) · حَمِئَة (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 15. Surah Al-Hijr, Verse 26

- **Form in this verse:** حَمَإٍۢ — ḥama-in · "black mud"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case · indefinite

وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْاِنْسَانَ مِنْ صَلْصَالٍ مِنْ حَمَأٍ مَسْنُونٍۚ

Walaqad khalaqna al-insana minsalsalin min hama-in masnoon

And We created man from sounding clay, from dark slime transmuted.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-hijr/verse-26.md_

### 15. Surah Al-Hijr, Verse 28

- **Form in this verse:** حَمَإٍۢ — ḥama-in · "black mud"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case · indefinite

وَاِذْ قَالَ رَبُّكَ لِلْمَلٰٓئِكَةِ اِنّ۪ي خَالِقٌ بَشَراً مِنْ صَلْصَالٍ مِنْ حَمَأٍ مَسْنُونٍ

Wa-ith qala rabbuka lilmala-ikatiinnee khaliqun basharan min salsalin min hama-inmasnoon

And when thy Lord said to the angels: “I am creating a mortal from sounding clay, from dark slime transmuted,

_https://quran.so/surah-al-hijr/verse-28.md_

### 15. Surah Al-Hijr, Verse 33

- **Form in this verse:** حَمَإٍۢ — ḥama-in · "black mud"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case · indefinite

قَالَ لَمْ اَكُنْ لِاَسْجُدَ لِبَشَرٍ خَلَقْتَهُ مِنْ صَلْصَالٍ مِنْ حَمَأٍ مَسْنُونٍ

Qala lam akun li-asjuda libasharinkhalaqtahu min salsalin min hama-in masnoon

Said he: “I am not one to submit to a mortal whom Thou hast created from sounding clay, from dark slime transmuted.”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-hijr/verse-33.md_

### 18. Surah Al-Kahf, Verse 86

- **Form in this verse:** حَمِئَةٍۢ — ḥami-atin · "(of) dark mud"
  - **Grammar:** adjective · feminine, singular · genitive case · indefinite

حَتّٰٓى اِذَا بَلَغَ مَغْرِبَ الشَّمْسِ وَجَدَهَا تَغْرُبُ ف۪ي عَيْنٍ حَمِئَةٍ وَوَجَدَ عِنْدَهَا قَوْماًۜ قُلْنَا يَا ذَا الْقَرْنَيْنِ اِمَّٓا اَنْ تُعَذِّبَ وَاِمَّٓا اَنْ تَتَّخِذَ ف۪يهِمْ حُسْناً

Hatta itha balaghamaghriba ashshamsi wajadaha taghrubu fee AAaynin hami-atinwawajada AAindaha qawman qulna ya thaalqarnayni imma an tuAAaththiba wa-imma antattakhitha feehim husna

When he had reached the setting of the sun, and found it setting in a murky spring, and found a people nearby, We said: “O Dhūl-Qarnayn: thou shalt either punish, or take concerning them good.”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-kahf/verse-86.md_

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