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Verse (16:58), Word 7 - Quranic Grammar

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The seventh word of verse (16:58) is an indefinite form IX masculine active participle and is in the accusative case (منصوب). The active participle's triliteral root is sīn wāw dāl (س و د).

Chapter (16) sūrat l-naḥl (The Bees)


(16:58:7)
mus'waddan
dark
N – accusative masculine indefinite (form IX) active participle اسم منصوب

Verse (16:58)

The analysis above refers to the 58th verse of chapter 16 (sūrat l-naḥl):

Sahih International: And when one of them is informed of [the birth of] a female, his face becomes dark, and he suppresses grief.

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Asim Iqbal 2nd

17th June, 2011

Form IX passive participle.

Translation atempt:

blackened, turned black

(turned dark/gloomy)

(became grieved, sorrowful, displeased,unhappy)

Reference: A Word for Word Meaning of the Qur'an by Muhammad Mohar Ali. 16:58, 43:17

Asim

9th June, 2013

Form IX Active Participle .

Grammarians label such forms as active participle and for forms VII, IX and XI there is no passive participle.

Notes: Wright’s Arabic Grammar Volume 1 pages 50, 51

Verbs that express a state or condition, or signify an act which is, by its very nature, confined to the person of the subject, and cannot pass to another individual as its object مَرِضَ (as to be sick, نَامَ to sleep), are aptly called neuter verbs, since they are neither really active nor really passive, but something between the two. The Arab grammarians cannot class them otherwise than among the active verbs, and they therefore distinguish أَلْأَفْعَالُ ٱلْمُتَعَدِّيَة , transitive verbs from أَلْأَفْعَالُ غَيْرُ ٱلْمُتَعَدِّيَة, intransitive verbs, or أَلْأَفْعَالُ ٱللَّازِمَة, verbs that are confined to the subject.

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