سهل

Core meaning

The plain: flat, open land, where one builds with ease, as opposed to the mountain.

Uses

1. سُهُولِهَا → "the plains" : the open ground where palaces rise.

   • «تَتَّخِذُونَ مِن سُهُولِهَا قُصُورًۭا وَتَنْحِتُونَ ٱلْجِبَالَ بُيُوتًۭا» — "in its plains you take palaces, and you carve the mountains into houses" (7:74)

Evidence from the text

The single use opposes plain and mountain term for term: in the one palaces are taken, in the other houses are carved (7:74). The two reliefs say the power of a people settled on the earth, who are asked to remember where it comes from.

Distinctions

• جبل — the mountain: the relief one carves, facing the plain where one builds

See also

قصر (the palace)