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Thal-Qaf-Nun
to strike on the chin, lean the chin upon (with ala), chin, although its primary meaning is chin it may be rendered as face.
To straighten.
A decrepit/old/weak man.
adhqan
n.f. (pl. of dhaqn)
17:107
قُلْ آمِنُوا بِهِ~ِ أَوْ لاَ تُؤْمِنُوا إِنَّ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْعِلْمَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِ~ِ إِذَا يُتْلَى عَلَيْهِمْ يَخِرُّونَ لِلأَذْقَانِ سُجَّدا ً
Qul 'Āminū Bihi 'Aw Lā Tu'uminū 'Inna Al-Ladhīna 'Ūtū Al-`Ilma Min Qablihi 'Idhā Yutlá `Alayhim Yakhirrūna Lil'adhqāni Sujjadāan
Say: "Believe in it or do not believe in it. Those who have been given the knowledge before it, when it is recited to them, they fall to their chins prostrating."
17:109
وَيَخِرُّونَ لِلأَذْقَانِ يَبْكُونَ وَيَزِيدُهُمْ خُشُوعا ً
Wa Yakhirrūna Lil'adhqāni Yabkūna Wa Yazīduhum Khushū`āan
And they fall upon their chins crying, and it increases them in humility.
36:8
إِنَّا جَعَلْنَا فِي أَعْنَاقِهِمْ أَغْلاَلا ً فَهِيَ إِلَى الأَذْقَانِ فَهُمْ مُقْمَحُونَ
'Innā Ja`alnā Fī 'A`nāqihim 'Aghlālāan Fahiya 'Ilá Al-'Adhqāni Fahum Muqmaĥūna
We have placed shackles around their necks, up to their chins, so that they are forced in place.
Hans Wehr
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