# Zal-Mim-Mim — ذمم (pmm)

> Occurs in 5 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To revile/blame/reprove/condemn/censure/reprehend, blameworthy, blamed one, disgraced, abused, shun/avoid
- **Derived forms:** ذِمَّة (2) · مَذْمُوم (3)

## Verses containing this root

### 9. Surah At-Tawbah, Verse 8

- **Form in this verse:** ذِمَّةًۭ ۚ — dhimmatan · "covenant of protection"
  - **Grammar:** noun · feminine · accusative case · indefinite

كَيْفَ وَاِنْ يَظْهَرُوا عَلَيْكُمْ لَا يَرْقُبُوا ف۪يكُمْ اِلاًّ وَلَا ذِمَّةًۜ يُرْضُونَكُمْ بِاَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَتَأْبٰى قُلُوبُهُمْۚ وَاَكْثَرُهُمْ فَاسِقُونَۚ

Kayfa wa-in yathharoo AAalaykumla yarquboo feekum illan wala thimmatan yurdoonakumbi-afwahihim wata/ba quloobuhum waaktharuhum fasiqoon

How, when if they get the better of you, they observe neither pact of kinship nor obligation to protect? They please you with their mouths, but their hearts refuse; and most of them are perfidious.

_https://quran.so/surah-at-tawbah/verse-8.md_

### 9. Surah At-Tawbah, Verse 10

- **Form in this verse:** ذِمَّةًۭ ۚ — dhimmatan · "covenant of protection"
  - **Grammar:** noun · feminine · accusative case · indefinite

لَا يَرْقُبُونَ ف۪ي مُؤْمِنٍ اِلاًّ وَلَا ذِمَّةًۜ  وَاُو۬لٰٓئِكَ هُمُ الْمُعْتَدُونَ

La yarquboona fee mu/minin illan walathimmatan waola-ika humu almuAAtadoon

And they regard towards a believer neither pact of kinship, nor obligation to protect; and it is they who are the transgressors.

_https://quran.so/surah-at-tawbah/verse-10.md_

### 17. Surah Al-Isra, Verse 18

- **Form in this verse:** مَذْمُومًۭا — madhmūman · "disgraced"
  - **Grammar:** noun · passive · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

مَنْ كَانَ يُر۪يدُ الْعَاجِلَةَ عَجَّلْنَا لَهُ ف۪يهَا مَا نَشَٓاءُ لِمَنْ نُر۪يدُ ثُمَّ جَعَلْنَا لَهُ جَهَنَّمَۚ يَصْلٰيهَا مَذْمُوماً مَدْحُوراً

Man kana yureedu alAAajilataAAajjalna lahu feeha ma nashao limannureedu thumma jaAAalna lahu jahannama yaslahamathmooman madhoora

Whoso desires this fleeting life, We hasten for him therein what We will to whom We wish; then have We appointed for him Gehenna wherein he will burn, condemned and banished.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-isra/verse-18.md_

### 17. Surah Al-Isra, Verse 22

- **Form in this verse:** مَذْمُومًۭا — madhmūman · "disgraced"
  - **Grammar:** noun · passive · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

لَا تَجْعَلْ مَعَ اللّٰهِ اِلٰهاً اٰخَرَ فَتَقْعُدَ مَذْمُوماً مَخْذُولاً۟

La tajAAal maAAa Allahi ilahanakhara fataqAAuda mathmooman makhthoola

Make thou not with God another god lest thou sit down condemned and forsaken.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-isra/verse-22.md_

### 68. Surah Al-Qalam, Verse 49

- **Form in this verse:** مَذْمُومٌۭ — madhmūmun · "(was) blamed"
  - **Grammar:** noun · passive · masculine · nominative case · indefinite

لَوْلَٓا اَنْ تَدَارَكَهُ نِعْمَةٌ مِنْ رَبِّه۪ لَنُبِذَ بِالْعَرَٓاءِ وَهُوَ مَذْمُومٌ

Lawla an tadarakahu niAAmatunmin rabbihi lanubitha bilAAara-i wahuwa mathmoom

Had not favour from his Lord overtaken him, he would have been cast on the bare shore when he was condemned.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-qalam/verse-49.md_

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