Quran glossary · draft

تَبَسَّمَ

smile

To show amused pleasure through a smile.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: بسم

Lemmas: تبسم

Forms: تَبَسَّمَ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

27:19

فَتَبَسَّمَ ضَاحِكًا مِّن قَوْلِهَا وَقَالَ رَبِّ أَوْزِعْنِىٓ أَنْ أَشْكُرَ نِعْمَتَكَ ٱلَّتِىٓ أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَىَّ وَعَلَىٰ وَٰلِدَىَّ وَأَنْ أَعْمَلَ صَٰلِحًا تَرْضَىٰهُ وَأَدْخِلْنِى بِرَحْمَتِكَ فِى عِبَادِكَ ٱلصَّٰلِحِينَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered the sole occurrence of Form V تَبَسَّمَ at 27:19. Solomon smiles while laughing at the ant's speech and immediately turns to grateful prayer for God's favors and righteous action. The accompanying participle laughing directly identifies the facial response as amused pleasure without requiring a separate sense. Person, aspect, and Form V morphology are captured in the rule. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.