Quran glossary · draft

ٱلشِّعْرَى

Sirius

A proper name identifies the celestial referent of which God alone is asserted as Lord.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1

Roots: شعر

Lemmas: شعرى

Forms: شِّعْرَىٰ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

53:49

وَأَنَّهُۥ هُوَ رَبُّ ٱلشِّعْرَىٰ

Where other meanings fail

poetry

53:49

وَأَنَّهُۥ هُوَ رَبُّ ٱلشِّعْرَىٰ

Alternative: God is Lord of poetry

Research rendering: God is Lord of Sirius

Proper-name morphology identifies a unique referent rather than discourse.