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