سمر

Core meaning

To converse by night: the night gathering where people talk among themselves.

Uses

1. سَٰمِر → "conversing by night" : speech held among oneselves, at night.

   • «سَٰمِرًۭا تَهْجُرُونَ» — "conversing by night, you spoke outrageously" (23:67)

Evidence from the text

A single word. The previous verse describes an attitude toward the recited signs: "you stepped back on your heels, growing too proud for them" (23:66). The night gathering is its setting: there, people talk of those signs among themselves. The reading followed, تُهْجِرُونَ, makes this nightly speech an outrage; the reading تَهْجُرُونَ would make it a withdrawal. In both cases, سمر names the nightly setting of speech.

Distinctions

• هجر — outrageous speech or withdrawal, which the night gathering frames