طمم

Core meaning

To cover over by overflowing all that precedes. The text makes it a name of the Hour: what submerges everything else.

Uses

1. ٱلطَّآمَّةُ ٱلْكُبْرَىٰ → "the great Cataclysm" : a name of the Hour, by what it does.

   • «فَإِذَا جَآءَتِ ٱلطَّآمَّةُ ٱلْكُبْرَىٰ» — "Then, when the great Cataclysm comes" (79:34)

Evidence from the text

The word occurs only once. It comes at the end of the sura, after the first quaking and the one that follows it (79:6-7), and it is called "great": it covers all that precedes. What follows gives what it produces in each one: "the Day the human being will remember what he endeavoured", and the Blaze "shown to whoever sees" (79:35-36).

Distinctions

• صخخ — the Deafening Blast: the Hour named by the crash that deafens, whereas ٱلطَّآمَّة names it by what submerges

See also

سوع (the Hour)