Words in the Qur’an that are grammatically used as both masculine and feminine forms

Authors

  • Mohamed Boudiba Higher School of Teachers – El Eulma

Keywords:

يبدو أنك تقصد وضع العناصر السابقة في **سطر واحد**. إليك الصياغة: **Male and Female; The Good and Pure Land; Sorrow consumed him; The Snake; Wine and Gambling; The Forearm.**

Abstract

الترجمة إلى الإنجليزية (صياغة أكاديمية):

The issue of grammatical gender (masculine and feminine) has occupied many linguists, who authored numerous works and classifications on the subject. They attempted to define each lexical item and assign it to its appropriate category in terms of gender, whether masculine or feminine. They generally agreed that Arabic lexical items are either masculine or feminine, while some may admit both forms, functioning as both masculine and feminine, such as the words “sky” and “spider.”

Through this research, I have attempted to trace this phenomenon in Qur’anic texts using a statistical-analytical approach, collecting these expressions and commenting on them, hoping that this work will be beneficial to students of knowledge, both present and future.

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Published

2026-04-30

How to Cite

Boudiba, M. (2026). Words in the Qur’an that are grammatically used as both masculine and feminine forms. El Omda in Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, 1(2), 65–87. Retrieved from https://journals.univ-msila.dz/index.php/OLDA/article/view/9752

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