# Kaf-Mim-Lam — قمل (qml)

> Occurs in 1 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To swarm with lice or vermin. qummalun - lice, tick, small ants, red-winged insects.
- **Derived forms:** قُمَّل (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 7. Surah Al-A'raf, Verse 133

- **Form in this verse:** وَٱلْقُمَّلَ — wal-qumala · "and the lice"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine, plural · accusative case

فَاَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمُ الطُّوفَانَ وَالْجَرَادَ وَالْقُمَّلَ وَالضَّفَادِعَ وَالدَّمَ اٰيَاتٍ مُفَصَّلَاتٍ فَاسْتَكْبَرُوا وَكَانُوا قَوْماً مُجْرِم۪ينَ

Faarsalna AAalayhimu attoofanawaljarada walqummala waddafadiAAawaddama ayatin mufassalatinfastakbaroo wakanoo qawman mujrimeen

And We sent upon them the flood, and the locusts, and the lice, and the frogs, and the blood — proofs set out and detailed — but they had waxed proud and were a people of lawbreakers.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-araf/verse-133.md_

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