The first word of verse (16:8) is divided into 2 morphological segments. A conjunction and noun. The prefixed conjunction wa is usually translated as "and". The noun is masculine and is in the accusative case (منصوب). The noun's triliteral root is khā yā lām (خ ي ل).

Chapter (16) sūrat l-naḥl (The Bees) (16:8:1) wal-khayla And horses
CONJ – prefixed conjunction wa (and) N – accusative masculine noun → Horse	الواو عاطفة اسم منصوب

Verse (16:8)

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

Sahih International: And [He created] the horses, mules and donkeys for you to ride and [as] adornment. And He creates that which you do not know.

See Also

• English Translations
• Part-of-speech Tags
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Quran Dictionary - the root khā yā lām
• Horse - referred to by the noun

2 messages

	Maqbool Ahmad 28th June, 2015 Should (16:8:1) الْخَيْلَ include plural i.e accusative masculine plural noun?
	Abdul Rahman 28th June, 2015 The word خيل is a collective noun. So it is correctly translated as "horses". Yet in Arabic it a singular noun which has its own plural خُيُول.

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