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Thamud

ثمود

Thamud (ثمود) is the name of a people mentioned in the Quran who carved stone houses out of mountains in ancient Arabia. They were sent the prophet Salih.

Definitions are in English, as published by the Quranic Arabic Corpus.

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is an instance ofalso calledLiving CreationSentient CreationHumanHistoric PeopleAadعادAnsarأنصارThamudثمودBedouinأعرابChildren of Israelبنى إسرائيلPeople of al-Hijrأصحاب الحجرThamudثمود
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Sources: Tanzil (text, verbatim) · Quranic Arabic Corpus, © Kais Dukes, GNU GPL (morphology, syntax, word-by-word English, ontology) · Draft trees for 9:92 to 58: “Quranic” hybrid treebank, CC BY 4.0 · Translations: Pickthall (EN), Jalandhari (UR), via tanzil.net/trans · Themes: Quranpedia.net topics index (dump 2026-11-11) and classical tafsir citations · Indo-Pak text and font: DigitalKhatt (MIT, SIL OFL 1.1). Urdu word glosses are coming soon.