The Bee 16:48Quranic text
أَوَلَمْيَرَوْا۟إِلَىٰمَاخَلَقَٱللَّهُمِنشَىْءٍيَتَفَيَّؤُا۟ظِلَٰلُهُۥعَنِٱلْيَمِينِوَٱلشَّمَآئِلِسُجَّدًالِّلَّهِوَهُمْدَٰخِرُونَ
Reference 16:48Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 16:48:13
وَٱلشَّمَآئِلِ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- وَٱلشَّمَآئِلِ Quranic text
- Simple
- وَالشَّمَآئِلِ
- Without tashkeel
- وٱلشمائل
- Normalised (searchable)
- والشمائل
Position
Computed- Surah
- 16 · The Bee
- Verse
- 16:48
- Word in verse
- 13
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:16:48:13
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- and to the left,
- Transliteration
- wal-shamāili
- Root
- ش م لsh-m-l
- Lemma
- شَمائِل
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: GENgender: Mnumber: plural
Sub-word segments
- وَprefix · CONJ
- ٱلprefix · DET
- شَّمَآئِلِstem · N · ش م ل
Morphology is an external annotation from the Leeds Quranic Arabic Corpus, licensed GPL-2.0-or-later. It is not Quranic text and never alters the token.
In context
Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 16:48 — the whole verse this word appears in — not this word alone. The correspondence is verse-level: no word-level alignment of translations exists for these editions, so we do not claim which English word renders this Arabic word. Compare the editions →
Have they not observed what God has created? Their shadows revolve from the right and the left, bowing to God as they shrink awayHave they not observed all things that Allah hath created, how their shadows incline to the right and to the left, making prostration unto Allah, and they are lowlyHave they not seen how everything which God hath created turneth its shadow right and left, prostrating itself before God in all abasementDo they not regard whatever thing God has created; its shadow falls on the right or the left, adoring God and shrinking upSame form · 1 occurrence
ComputedThis exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.
Root ش م ل · 12 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ش م ل occurs 12 times across 6 distinct forms.
- ٱشْتَمَلَتْ6:143:15
- ٱشْتَمَلَتْ6:144:13
- شَمَآئِلِهِمْ7:17:11
- ٱلشِّمَالِ18:17:14
- ٱلشِّمَالِ18:18:9
- وَشِمَالٍ34:15:10
- ٱلشِّمَالِ50:17:7
- ٱلشِّمَالِ56:41:2
- ٱلشِّمَالِ56:41:5
- بِشِمَالِهِۦ69:25:5
- ٱلشِّمَالِ70:37:4
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