# Zay-Mim-Elif — ظما (ZmA)

> Occurs in 3 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To be thirsty, desire a thing, alter a thing (heat), jade.
- **Derived forms:** تَظْمَؤُا۟ (1) · ظَّمْ َٔان (1) · ظَمَأ (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 9. Surah At-Tawbah, Verse 120

- **Form in this verse:** ظَمَأٌۭ — ẓama-on · "thirst"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · nominative case · indefinite

مَا كَانَ لِاَهْلِ الْمَد۪ينَةِ وَمَنْ حَوْلَهُمْ مِنَ الْاَعْرَابِ اَنْ يَتَخَلَّفُوا عَنْ رَسُولِ اللّٰهِ وَلَا يَرْغَبُوا بِاَنْفُسِهِمْ عَنْ نَفْسِه۪ۜ ذٰلِكَ بِاَنَّهُمْ لَا يُص۪يبُهُمْ ظَمَاٌ وَلَا نَصَبٌ وَلَا مَخْمَصَةٌ ف۪ي سَب۪يلِ اللّٰهِ وَلَا يَطَؤُ۫نَ مَوْطِئاً يَغ۪يظُ الْكُفَّارَ وَلَا يَنَالُونَ مِنْ عَدُوٍّ نَيْلاً اِلَّا كُتِبَ لَهُمْ بِه۪ عَمَلٌ صَالِحٌۜ اِنَّ اللّٰهَ لَا يُض۪يعُ اَجْرَ الْمُحْسِن۪ينَۙ

Ma kana li-ahli almadeenatiwaman hawlahum mina al-aAArabi an yatakhallafooAAan rasooli Allahi wala yarghaboo bi-anfusihimAAan nafsihi thalika bi-annahum la yuseebuhumthamaon wala nasabun walamakhmasatun fee sabeeli Allahi wala yataoonamawti-an yagheethu alkuffara walayanaloona min AAaduwwin naylan illa kutiba lahumbihi AAamalun salihun inna Allaha layudeeAAu ajra almuhsineen

It is not for the people of the city and those around them of the desert Arabs to remain behind the messenger of God, and prefer their lives to his life. Is it not that there befalls them neither thirst, nor fatigue, nor hunger, in the cause of God, neither take they any step that enrages the atheists, nor achieve they against the enemy an attainment save that it is recorded for them as a righteous deed! God causes not to be lost the reward of the doers of good.

_https://quran.so/surah-at-tawbah/verse-120.md_

### 20. Surah Taha, Verse 119

- **Form in this verse:** تَظْمَؤُا۟ — taẓma-u · "will suffer from thirst"
  - **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_

### 24. Surah An-Nur, Verse 39

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلظَّمْـَٔانُ — l-ẓamānu · "the thirsty one"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · nominative case

وَالَّذ۪ينَ كَفَرُٓوا اَعْمَالُهُمْ كَسَرَابٍ بِق۪يعَةٍ يَحْسَبُهُ الظَّمْاٰنُ مَٓاءًۜ حَتّٰٓى اِذَا جَٓاءَهُ لَمْ يَجِدْهُ شَيْـٔاً وَوَجَدَ اللّٰهَ عِنْدَهُ فَوَفّٰيهُ حِسَابَهُۜ وَاللّٰهُ سَر۪يعُ الْحِسَابِۙ

Wallatheena kafaroo aAAmaluhumkasarabin biqeeAAatin yahsabuhu aththam-anumaan hatta itha jaahu lamyajidhu shay-an wawajada Allaha AAindahu fawaffahu hisabahuwallahu sareeAAu alhisab

And those who ignore warning, their deeds are like a mirage in a desert: the thirsty one thinks it water; when he has come to it, he finds it nothing, but finds God with him, and He pays his account in full — and God is swift in reckoning —

_https://quran.so/surah-an-nur/verse-39.md_

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