# Elif-Be-Lam — ابل (Abl)

> Occurs in 3 verses of the Quran.

- **Source:** https://quran.so/root/Abl

- **Meaning:** devote oneself to religious exercises, became a devotee, he overcame/resisted/withstood, camels, acquire camels, camels became numerous, skilled in the good management of camels, herd of camels, flocks, a bundle (e.g. of firewood), a company in a state of dispersion.
- **Derived forms:** أَبَابِيل (1) · إِبِل (2)

## Verses containing this root

### 6. Surah Al-An'am, Verse 144

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلْإِبِلِ — l-ibili · "the camels"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case

وَمِنَ الْاِبِلِ اثْنَيْنِ وَمِنَ الْبَقَرِ اثْنَيْنِۜ قُلْ آٰلذَّكَرَيْنِ حَرَّمَ اَمِ الْاُنْثَيَيْنِ اَمَّا اشْتَمَلَتْ عَلَيْهِ اَرْحَامُ الْاُنْثَيَيْنِۜ اَمْ كُنْتُمْ شُهَدَٓاءَ اِذْ وَصّٰيكُمُ اللّٰهُ بِهٰذَاۚ فَمَنْ اَظْلَمُ مِمَّنِ افْتَرٰى عَلَى اللّٰهِ كَذِباً لِيُضِلَّ النَّاسَ بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍۜ اِنَّ اللّٰهَ لَا يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الظَّالِم۪ينَ۟

Wamina al-ibili ithnayni wamina albaqariithnayni qul aththakarayni harramaami alonthayayni amma ishtamalat AAalayhi arhamualonthayayni am kuntum shuhadaa ith wassakumuAllahu bihatha faman athlamu mimmaniiftara AAala Allahi kathiban liyudillaannasa bighayri AAilmin inna Allaha layahdee alqawma aththalimeen

“And of camels two and of oxen two––” Say thou: “Is it the two males He has forbidden or the two females? If what the wombs of the two females contain: — or if you were witnesses when God enjoined this upon you: — then who is more unjust than he who invents a lie about God, that he might lead people astray without knowledge? God guides not the wrongdoing people.”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-anam/verse-144.md_

### 88. Surah Al-Ghashiyah, Verse 17

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلْإِبِلِ — l-ibili · "the camels"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case

اَفَلَا يَنْظُرُونَ اِلَى الْاِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ۠

Afala yanthuroona ilaal-ibili kayfa khuliqat

Will they then not look at the camels — how they were created!

_https://quran.so/surah-al-ghashiyah/verse-17.md_

### 105. Surah Al-Fil, Verse 3

- **Form in this verse:** أَبَابِيلَ — abābīla · "(in) flocks"
  - **Grammar:** adjective · masculine, plural · accusative case · indefinite

وَاَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْراً اَبَاب۪يلَۙ

Waarsala AAalayhim tayran ababeel

And He sent against them flights in droves

_https://quran.so/surah-al-fil/verse-3.md_

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