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Arabic root

ظ-ل-ل

1 word from this root family

B1noun
ظِلٌّ
ẓill

shade / shadow

Example
وَنُدْخِلُهُمْ ظِلًّا ظَلِيلًا
wa-nudkhiluhum ẓillan ẓalīlā
And We will admit them to a dense shade (4:57)
Grammar

Masculine noun. Plural: ظِلَالٌ (ẓilāl). Adjective: ظَلِيلٌ (providing dense shade). In desert Arabia, shade was the ultimate comfort — hence its prominence in Paradise descriptions.

Culture

Shade in Paradise is a recurring Quranic image. The Prophet ﷺ also described seven types of people who will be shaded by God's Throne on Judgment Day.