دهم

Core meaning

To be of a green so dense that it verges on black: the colour of a profuse vegetation.

Uses

1. مُدْهَآمَّتَانِ → "deep green" : the dual: the two gardens that lie beyond the first two.

   • «مُدْهَآمَّتَانِ» — "deep green" (55:64)

Evidence from the text

The single use forms a verse by itself: after the announcement of two other gardens and the refrain "which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?", a single word describes them. The intensive pattern states a colour carried to its end: the greenery is so thick that it darkens.

Distinctions

• خضر — green: the colour of what grows, whereas مُدْهَآمّ states its darkest degree

See also

جنن (the garden)