# Nun-Mim-Lam — نمل (nml)

> Occurs in 4 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** to slander, disclose a thing maliciously, climb. Ant. namil - clever man. Name of a valley situated between Jibrin and Asqalaan a town on the seacost 12 miles to the north of Gaza, in Sinai and namlah is the name of a tribe living in this valley. anaamil - fingers.
- **Derived forms:** أَنَامِل (1) · نَمْلَة (1) · نَّمْل (2)

## Verses containing this root

### 3. Surah Ali 'Imran, Verse 119

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلْأَنَامِلَ — l-anāmila · "the finger tips"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine, plural · accusative case

هَٓا اَنْتُمْ اُو۬لَٓاءِ تُحِبُّونَهُمْ وَلَا يُحِبُّونَكُمْ وَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْكِتَابِ كُلِّه۪ۚ وَاِذَا لَقُوكُمْ قَالُٓوا اٰمَنَّاۗ وَاِذَا خَلَوْا عَضُّوا عَلَيْكُمُ الْاَنَامِلَ مِنَ الْغَيْظِۜ قُلْ مُوتُوا بِغَيْظِكُمْۜ اِنَّ اللّٰهَ عَل۪يمٌ بِذَاتِ الصُّدُورِ

Ha antum ola-i tuhibboonahumwala yuhibboonakum watu/minoona bilkitabikullihi wa-itha laqookum qaloo amannawa-itha khalaw AAaddoo AAalaykumu al-anamilamina alghaythi qul mootoo bighaythikuminna Allaha AAaleemun bithati assudoor

Here you are, those who love them; and they love you not, when you believe in the Writ — all of it. And when they meet you, they say: “We believe,” but when they are alone, they bite their fingertips at you from rage. Say thou: “Die in your rage, God knows what is in the breasts.”

_https://quran.so/surah-ali-imran/verse-119.md_

### 27. Surah An-Naml, Verse 18

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلنَّمْلِ — l-namli · "(of) the ants"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case

حَتّٰٓى اِذَٓا اَتَوْا عَلٰى وَادِ النَّمْلِۙ قَالَتْ نَمْلَةٌ يَٓا اَيُّهَا النَّمْلُ ادْخُلُوا مَسَاكِنَكُمْۚ لَا يَحْطِمَنَّكُمْ سُلَيْمٰنُ وَجُنُودُهُۙ وَهُمْ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ

Hatta itha ataw AAalawadi annamli qalat namlatun ya ayyuhaannamlu odkhuloo masakinakum la yahtimannakumsulaymanu wajunooduhu wahum la yashAAuroon

When they had reached the valley of the ants, an ant said: “O ants: enter your dwellings lest Solomon and his forces crush you when they perceive not!”

_https://quran.so/surah-an-naml/verse-18.md_

### 27. Surah An-Naml, Verse 18

- **Form in this verse:** نَمْلَةٌۭ — namlatun · "an ant"
  - **Grammar:** noun · feminine · nominative case · indefinite

حَتّٰٓى اِذَٓا اَتَوْا عَلٰى وَادِ النَّمْلِۙ قَالَتْ نَمْلَةٌ يَٓا اَيُّهَا النَّمْلُ ادْخُلُوا مَسَاكِنَكُمْۚ لَا يَحْطِمَنَّكُمْ سُلَيْمٰنُ وَجُنُودُهُۙ وَهُمْ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ

Hatta itha ataw AAalawadi annamli qalat namlatun ya ayyuhaannamlu odkhuloo masakinakum la yahtimannakumsulaymanu wajunooduhu wahum la yashAAuroon

When they had reached the valley of the ants, an ant said: “O ants: enter your dwellings lest Solomon and his forces crush you when they perceive not!”

_https://quran.so/surah-an-naml/verse-18.md_

### 27. Surah An-Naml, Verse 18

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلنَّمْلُ — l-namlu · "ants"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · nominative case

حَتّٰٓى اِذَٓا اَتَوْا عَلٰى وَادِ النَّمْلِۙ قَالَتْ نَمْلَةٌ يَٓا اَيُّهَا النَّمْلُ ادْخُلُوا مَسَاكِنَكُمْۚ لَا يَحْطِمَنَّكُمْ سُلَيْمٰنُ وَجُنُودُهُۙ وَهُمْ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ

Hatta itha ataw AAalawadi annamli qalat namlatun ya ayyuhaannamlu odkhuloo masakinakum la yahtimannakumsulaymanu wajunooduhu wahum la yashAAuroon

When they had reached the valley of the ants, an ant said: “O ants: enter your dwellings lest Solomon and his forces crush you when they perceive not!”

_https://quran.so/surah-an-naml/verse-18.md_

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