Quran glossary · draft

نَمْلَة

an ant

The feminine unit noun selects one ant from the collective.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: نمل

Lemmas: نملة

Forms: نَمْلَةٌ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

27:18

حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَآ أَتَوْا۟ عَلَىٰ وَادِ ٱلنَّمْلِ قَالَتْ نَمْلَةٌ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّمْلُ ٱدْخُلُوا۟ مَسَٰكِنَكُمْ لَا يَحْطِمَنَّكُمْ سُلَيْمَٰنُ وَجُنُودُهُۥ وَهُمْ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

All four family occurrences were reviewed on one bounded page; every occurrence is a frozen target, with no protected records or compacted candidates. The collective noun نَمْل occurs twice in 27:18, once in the valley construct and once in direct address, while the feminine unit noun نَمْلَة identifies one ant; case and definiteness compose locally. The broken plural أَنَامِل at 3:119 denotes fingertips bitten in rage and cannot mean ants in that clause, creating one exact Quran-internal lexical collision. The collision is confined to that segment. No aligned reading payload or unresolved issue remains.