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ش-م-س

Shin-Mim-Sin

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About this root

Shin-Mim-Sin (ش-م-س) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: shamsun (sun).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 33 times in 32 verses, across 28 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:258. The form شَمْسٌ (sun) accounts for all of them.

Themes: Nouns, Nature

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
شَمْسٌ
shamsun
sunnoun, A133×Nature, People & The World Around Us

“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.

In the Quran

فَلَمَّا رَءَا ٱلشَّمْسَ بَازِغَةً قَالَ هَـٰذَا رَبِّى هَـٰذَآ أَكْبَرُ ۖ فَلَمَّآ أَفَلَتْ قَالَ يَـٰقَوْمِ إِنِّى بَرِىٓءٌ مِّمَّا تُشْرِكُونَ

And when he saw the sun uprising, he cried: This is my Lord! This is greater! And when it set he exclaimed: O my people! Lo! I am free from all that ye associate (with Him).

Quran 6:78
فَالِقُ ٱلْإِصْبَاحِ وَجَعَلَ ٱلَّيْلَ سَكَنًا وَٱلشَّمْسَ وَٱلْقَمَرَ حُسْبَانًا ۚ ذَٰلِكَ تَقْدِيرُ ٱلْعَزِيزِ ٱلْعَلِيمِ

He is the Cleaver of the Daybreak, and He hath appointed the night for stillness, and the sun and the moon for reckoning. That is the measuring of the Mighty, the Wise.

Quran 6:96
هُوَ ٱلَّذِى جَعَلَ ٱلشَّمْسَ ضِيَآءً وَٱلْقَمَرَ نُورًا وَقَدَّرَهُۥ مَنَازِلَ لِتَعْلَمُوا۟ عَدَدَ ٱلسِّنِينَ وَٱلْحِسَابَ ۚ مَا خَلَقَ ٱللَّهُ ذَٰلِكَ إِلَّا بِٱلْحَقِّ ۚ يُفَصِّلُ ٱلْـَٔايَـٰتِ لِقَوْمٍ يَعْلَمُونَ

He it is Who appointed the sun a splendour and the moon a light, and measured for her stages, that ye might know the number of the years, and the reckoning. Allah created not (all) that save in truth. He detaileth the revelations for people who have knowledge.

Quran 10:5

Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).

Word cards with examples

A1noun
شَمْسٌ
shamsun

sun

Example
الشَّمْسُ سَاطِعَةٌ الْيَوْمَ.
ash-shamsu sāṭiʿatun al-yawma.
The sun is shining today.
Grammar

Feminine noun (no tāʾ marbūṭa but grammatically feminine). 'Shams' is a 'sun letter' causing assimilation of 'al-'.

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