وَجَآءَتْ سَيَّارَةٌ فَأَرْسَلُوا۟ وَارِدَهُمْ فَأَدْلَىٰ دَلْوَهُۥ قَالَ يَٰبُشْرَىٰ هَٰذَا غُلَٰمٌ وَأَسَرُّوهُ بِضَٰعَةً وَٱللَّهُ عَلِيمٌۢ بِمَا يَعْمَلُونَ
Quran glossary · draft
ٱلْغُلَام
boy
The singular noun identifies a young male encountered or discussed in a narrative.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 3
Roots: غلم
Lemmas: غلام
Forms: غُلَٰمٌ · غُلَٰمًا · غُلَٰمُ
Occurrence examples (3 of 3)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.
فَٱنطَلَقَا حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا لَقِيَا غُلَٰمًا فَقَتَلَهُۥ قَالَ أَقَتَلْتَ نَفْسًا زَكِيَّةًۢ بِغَيْرِ نَفْسٍ لَّقَدْ جِئْتَ شَيْـًٔا نُّكْرًا
وَأَمَّا ٱلْغُلَٰمُ فَكَانَ أَبَوَاهُ مُؤْمِنَيْنِ فَخَشِينَآ أَن يُرْهِقَهُمَا طُغْيَٰنًا وَكُفْرًا
Why this meaning was chosen
All 13 family occurrences were reviewed on one bounded page; every occurrence is a frozen target, with no protected records or compacted candidates. Masculine singular, dual, and broken plural morphology compose number, definiteness, and case. Birth announcements foreground a promised son, narrative references identify a boy or two orphan boys, and the plural in the garden denotes young attendants. Sonship, orphanhood, service, and descriptive qualities such as knowing, forbearing, or pure arise from local syntax and context; they do not establish competing lexical senses. No aligned reading payload or unresolved issue remains.