Quran glossary · draft

شِعْر، شَاعِر، شُعَرَاء

produce poetry

A person produces the discourse type named poetry; nominal morphology may profile the discourse event or its singular and plural producers.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 6

Roots: شعر

Lemmas: شاعر · شعر

Forms: شَاعِرٌ · شَاعِرٍ · شُّعَرَآءُ · شِّعْرَ

Occurrence examples (6 of 6)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 6.

21:5

بَلْ قَالُوٓا۟ أَضْغَٰثُ أَحْلَٰمٍۭ بَلِ ٱفْتَرَىٰهُ بَلْ هُوَ شَاعِرٌ فَلْيَأْتِنَا بِـَٔايَةٍ كَمَآ أُرْسِلَ ٱلْأَوَّلُونَ

26:224

وَٱلشُّعَرَآءُ يَتَّبِعُهُمُ ٱلْغَاوُۥنَ

36:69

وَمَا عَلَّمْنَٰهُ ٱلشِّعْرَ وَمَا يَنۢبَغِى لَهُۥٓ إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا ذِكْرٌ وَقُرْءَانٌ مُّبِينٌ

37:36

وَيَقُولُونَ أَئِنَّا لَتَارِكُوٓا۟ ءَالِهَتِنَا لِشَاعِرٍ مَّجْنُونٍۭ

52:30

أَمْ يَقُولُونَ شَاعِرٌ نَّتَرَبَّصُ بِهِۦ رَيْبَ ٱلْمَنُونِ

69:41

وَمَا هُوَ بِقَوْلِ شَاعِرٍ قَلِيلًا مَّا تُؤْمِنُونَ

Where other meanings fail

poet

26:224

وَٱلشُّعَرَآءُ يَتَّبِعُهُمُ ٱلْغَاوُۥنَ

Alternative: the poets is followed by the erring

Research rendering: the poets are followed by the erring

Plural morphology changes agreement and participant number but not lexical identity.

hair

36:69

وَمَا عَلَّمْنَٰهُ ٱلشِّعْرَ وَمَا يَنۢبَغِى لَهُۥٓ إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا ذِكْرٌ وَقُرْءَانٌ مُّبِينٌ

Alternative: We did not teach him hair

Research rendering: We did not teach him poetry

Teaching and the contrast with reminder and Quran select a discourse type.