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Sealed128 occurrences سئل s'l To turn to someone so that he gives: a thing, or an answer. In the passive, the question becomes an account to be rendered. Uses 1. سَأَلَ, يَسْـَٔلُ + object → "to ask"… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences سئم s'm To tire of an act that requires lasting. The text uses it only negated or forbidden. Uses 1. سَئِمَ, يَسْـَٔمُ → "to tire of" : to lose constancy in a repeated act. «وَلَ… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences سال sal To make desirable what one wants, to the point of making it wanted: the inner voice that embellishes an act and pushes toward it, and, from the same ground, the thing wis… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences سبب sbb What connects one thing to another and allows one to reach it: the link one follows, extends or sees severed, the means by which one ascends. The same letters also say, i… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences سبت sbt To interrupt the course of activity. The noun names the instituted Rest, which the text ascribes to those who received it and never to God, and the sleep that cuts off th… Read the entry → Sealed92 occurrences سبح sbh To move on in a continuous motion without leaving one's course: the swimming of the stars in their orbit, and glorification, by which every creature keeps its place befor… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences سبط sbt The branches sprung from one stock: a people divided into distinct bloodlines, born of a common ancestry; after Yaacoub, the whole of the bloodlines issued from him, name… Read the entry → Sealed28 occurrences سبع sb' The number seven: an exact count, which orders a finite and verifiable set; seventy is its tenfold. Uses 1. سَبْع, سَبْعَة → "seven" : the number set before what it count… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences سبغ sbgh To cover entirely, leaving nothing lacking: a fullness that covers everything, whether favors or armor. Uses 1. أَسْبَغَ عَلَى → "to lavish" : to pour upon someone favors… Read the entry → Sealed37 occurrences سبق sbq To arrive before: to get ahead of another in a race, or to precede in time, like a word or a writ set down before the act and governing it. Uses 1. سَبَقَ, يَسْبِقُ → "to… Read the entry → Sealed175 occurrences سبل sbl The way: the route one follows, on the earth as in the conduct of a life. It takes its value from the one it leads to or who proposes it. Uses 1. سَبِيل, سُبُل → "way", "… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences ستت stt The number six; its multiple, sixty. The text uses it above all for the six days of creation. Uses 1. سِتَّة → "six" : the duration of creation, in a recurring formula. «… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences ستر str To cover so as to withdraw from sight: to veil, to shelter, to hide oneself. Uses 1. مَسْتُور → "hidden" : what is itself covered: the veil one does not see. «حِجَابًۭا م… Read the entry → Sealed92 occurrences سجد sjd To prostrate: to set the face on the ground before another, the whole gesture by which one acknowledges his greatness; the place and the moment of this gesture take their… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences سجر sjr To bring to the highest heat, to boiling or to blazing: one sea, all the seas, then people in the Fire. Uses 1. ٱلْمَسْجُور, سُجِّرَتْ → "set aboil" : the sea heated unti… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سجل sjl The binder: the holder in which writings are kept, and which closes over them. Uses 1. ٱلسِّجِلّ → "a binder" : the object that closes over what it holds; it serves as th… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences سجن sjn To hold shut in: prison, where someone is kept against his will; and, in the form سِجِّين, a name the text itself defines as "a written record". Uses 1. سَجَنَ, يُسْجَنُ,… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سجو sjw To grow still and spread out in silence, like the night which, once fallen, covers everything with its calm. Uses 1. سَجَىٰ → "to grow still" : the night that settles in… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences سجيل sjyl Formed clay: an earth that has received its form and keeps it, the matter of the stones of punishment. Uses 1. سِجِّيل → "formed clay" : the matter of the stones that fal… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences سحب shb To pull along by dragging. The cloud is the mass the winds drag across the sky; in the passive, the verb says those who are dragged into the Fire. Uses 1. سَحَاب → "cloud… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences سحت sht To consume unto annihilation: illicit gain, which gnaws at the one who feeds on it, and extirpation, which leaves nothing. Uses 1. ٱلسُّحْت → "illicit gain" : goods acqui… Read the entry → Sealed63 occurrences سحر shr To make one see something other than what is: illusion, and the one who produces it. The same word also names the last hours of the night, when darkness comes undone befo… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences سحق shq Extreme remoteness: the far-off place into which one is swept, and remoteness pronounced against someone. Uses 1. سَحِيق → "far-off" : the place from which there is no re… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سحل shl The edge where water sets down what it carries: the shore. Uses 1. ٱلسَّاحِل → "the shore" : the point where the deep gives back what it carries off. «فَلْيُلْقِهِ ٱلْيَم… Read the entry → Sealed42 occurrences سخر skhr To dispose of another according to one's will: God subjects beings and things to the use of human beings; the one who scoffs makes another the object of his game. Uses 1.… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences سخط skht To disavow a conduct and make it felt: displeasure, the opposite of approval. Uses 1. سَخَط → "displeasure" : the disavowal one incurs. «كَمَنۢ بَآءَ بِسَخَطٍۢ مِّنَ ٱللَ… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences سدد sdd To close the gap: to block a passage, or to aim true leaving no flaw between what is said and what is right. Uses 1. سَدّ, ٱلسَّدَّيْنِ → "barrier" : what closes a passag… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences سدر sdr The lote tree, a thorny tree of dry lands: the text counts it among what grows, strips it of its thorns in the Garden, and makes it the landmark of the Utmost Boundary. U… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences سدس sds The number six, taken as a share or as a rank: the sixth of an inheritance, or the one who makes six in a counted group. Uses 1. ٱلسُّدُس → "a sixth" : the fixed share of… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سدى sda Left to oneself, with no aim and no account to render. Uses 1. سُدًى → "without purpose" : the state of one who would be abandoned with no end and no sequel. «أَن يُتْرَك… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences سراب srab The mirage: the appearance of an absent reality, visible from afar, which vanishes entirely when one reaches it. Uses 1. سَرَاب → "mirage" : what one takes for water and… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سرادق sradq The enclosure that surrounds on every side, like the wall of a tent pitched around a space. Uses 1. سُرَادِق → "the enclosure" : the wall of the fire, which shuts in thos… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences سرب srb To go one's way freely, unhindered: in the open, by day, or slipping away without leaving a hold. Uses 1. سَارِب → "to move openly" : to go in the open, by day. «وَسَارِب… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences سربال srbal The tunic: the garment that wraps the body, to protect it or, turned around, to overwhelm it. Uses 1. سَرَابِيل → "tunics" : the garments that cover and guard the body. «… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences سرج srj The torch: a source of light that burns, and illumines what lies in darkness. Uses 1. سِرَاج (the star) → "torch" : the sun, placed in the sky to give light. «وَجَعَلَ ٱل… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences سرح srh To let go freely, without holding back: to give a wife her freedom, or to lead the flock out to pasture. Uses 1. سَرَّحَ, تَسْرِيح → "to release", "a release" : to let th… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سرد srd To assemble in a regular sequence: to chain the rings of a coat of mail, one after another. Uses 1. ٱلسَّرْد → "the interlocking of the mail" : the ordered sequence of ri… Read the entry → Sealed44 occurrences سرر srr What is kept within, sheltered from sight: the secret one keeps or confides, and the well-being one carries inside, elation. Uses 1. سِرّ, أَسَرَّ, يُسِرُّ → "the secret"… Read the entry → Sealed23 occurrences سرع sr' To go quickly toward what one aims at. Said of God: the swiftness of His reckoning and of His sanction; said of human beings: speed toward good or toward evil. Uses 1. سَ… Read the entry → Sealed23 occurrences سرف srf To go beyond the measure: in spending, where it is waste, as in conduct, where it is excess. Uses 1. أَسْرَفَ, إِسْرَاف → "excess", "to be excessive" : the overstepping i… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences سرق srq To take in secret what is not one's own: to steal a good, or to snatch what is not meant for oneself. Uses 1. سَرَقَ, يَسْرِقْ, يَسْرِقْنَ → "to steal" : to appropriate a… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences سرمد srmd Continuous, without interruption or end. Uses 1. سَرْمَدًا → "perpetual" : the night or the day that would never give way to the other. «إِن جَعَلَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَيْكُمُ ٱلَ… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences سرى sra To travel by night: to set out under darkness, or to make someone set out by night; the night itself moves on in this way until it ebbs away. Uses 1. أَسْرِ, فَأَسْرِ → "… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سطح sth To make flat: to spread out a surface so that it is even and passable. Uses 1. سُطِحَتْ → "was laid flat" : the earth made flat, offered to sight as a fact of creation. «… Read the entry → Sealed16 occurrences سطر str To trace in lines: the writing aligned and recorded, which remains; in the plural أَسَاطِير, accounts set in lines, which the disowners call "legends of the ancients". Us… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سطو stw To assail someone violently, with a surge ready to strike. Uses 1. يَسْطُونَ بِـ → "to assault" : aggression on the point of breaking out. «يَكَادُونَ يَسْطُونَ بِٱلَّذِي… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences سعد s'd To have a happy lot: the favourable outcome that awaits some on the Day, facing the wretchedness of others. Uses 1. سَعِيد → "the happy" : the one whose final lot is happ… Read the entry → Sealed19 occurrences سعر s'r To stoke a fire until it blazes: the inferno, name of the Fire that does not die down, and, by image, the inflamed mind. Uses 1. ٱلسَّعِير → "the Inferno" : proper name o… Read the entry → Sealed30 occurrences سعى s'a To move actively toward an aim: to endeavour for it by effort, good or bad, or to go to it with a hurried movement. Uses 1. سَعَىٰ, يَسْعَىٰ (effort) → "to endeavour" : t… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سغب sghb Famine: a time when food is lacking to all. Uses 1. مَسْغَبَة → "famine" : the want that weighs on a whole day, not on a single person. «فِى يَوْمٍۢ ذِى مَسْغَبَةٍۢ» — "o… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences سفح sfh To let flow without restraint: blood shed outside the body, a union poured out beyond the bond that should contain it. Uses 1. مَسْفُوح → "spilled" : blood that flows out… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences سفر sfr To go out into the open: to leave the shelter of one's dwelling for the road, and, for light or a face, to show fully. Uses 1. سَفَر, أَسْفَار (the trips) → "journey" : t… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سفع sf' To seize roughly, pulling toward oneself. Uses 1. لَنَسْفَعًا → "We will seize him roughly" : the seizing that strips away all pretension, by the forelock. «لَنَسْفَعًۢا… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences سفك sfk To shed blood by violence. Uses 1. سَفَكَ ٱلدِّمَاء → "to shed blood" : the gesture itself: blood that flows. «وَيَسْفِكُ ٱلدِّمَآءَ» — "and shed blood" (2:30) «لَا تَسْف… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences سفل sfl The low: the lowest position, where the text, outside the battlefield, always places what it brings down. Uses 1. أَسْفَل → "lower", "from below" : the position, in the p… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences سفن sfn The boat: the craft that carries on the water those who board it. Uses 1. سَفِينَة → "boat", "vessel" : the boat holed in the account of 18:71-79, Nuh's vessel (29:15). «… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences سفه sfh Foolishness: a failing judgment, which makes one act against one's own good, even when one knows. Uses 1. سَفِيه, ٱلسُّفَهَآء → "foolish", "the fools" : the one whose jud… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences سقط sqt To tumble: to leave one's place above and come down at once, without restraint; in the causative, to make tumble. Uses 1. سَقَطَ, تَسْقُطُ, سَاقِط → "to tumble" : the fal… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences سقف sqf The roof: what covers from above, from a house to the sky. Uses 1. ٱلسَّقْف, سُقُف (the building) → "the roof", "roofs" : the covering of a human construction, which can… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences سقم sqm To be stricken in one's body: to suffer from an ailment. Uses 1. سَقِيم → "unwell" : the state of one whom the ailment strikes, declared or observed. «إِنِّى سَقِيمٌۭ» —… Read the entry → Sealed25 occurrences سقى sqa To bring water to the one who needs it: to water a being or a land, or to ask for drink. Uses 1. سَقَىٰ, يَسْقِى, أَسْقَىٰ → "to water", "to give drink" : to give water t… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سكب skb To pour without stopping: water that flows of itself, never running dry. Uses 1. مَسْكُوب → "flowing" : the water of the Garden, poured without end. «وَمَآءٍۢ مَّسْكُوبٍۢ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سكت skt To fall back into calm after agitation: said of anger that subsides and ceases to drive the one it held. Uses 1. سَكَتَ → "to subside" : anger falling back in the one it… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences سكر skr A disturbance that clouds perception: the intoxication of drink, and all that leads the gaze astray as it does. Uses 1. سُكَٰرَىٰ → "intoxicated" : those whose perception… Read the entry → Sealed69 occurrences سكن skn To settle and stay: to stop moving, whether in a place (to dwell), in the night (to rest) or within (tranquility); the destitute, مِسْكِين, bears the same name. Uses 1. س… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سلب slb To rob: to wrest from someone what he holds, with no way for him to recover it. Uses 1. يَسْلُبْ → "to rob" : to dispossess at a stroke, with no possible return. «وَإِن ي… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences سلح slh Arms: what one carries on oneself to fight or to stay on guard. Uses 1. أَسْلِحَة → "arms" : the equipment of combat, kept even during the Contact. «وَلْيَأْخُذُوٓا۟ أَسْ… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences سلخ slkh To remove a thing from what envelops it, as one takes off a skin: to divest oneself of it, or to strip it from another. Uses 1. ٱنسَلَخَ مِنْ → "to divest oneself of" : t… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سلسبيل slsbyl Proper noun. The text gives it as the name of a spring of the Garden: "a spring therein named Salsabil". The translation writes the name: "Salsabil". Uses 1. سَلْسَبِيلًا… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences سلسل slsl The chain: rings linked one to another, to fetter. Uses 1. سِلْسِلَة, سَلَٰسِل → "a chain", "chains" : the fetter prepared for those who disown, always joined to shackles… Read the entry → Sealed39 occurrences سلط slt To have a hold over: authority, power to act or proof that grounds, always received from another and never possessed by oneself. Uses 1. سُلْطَان (what grounds) → "author… Read the entry → Sealed8 occurrences سلف slf What is bygone: a closed time, which is not reopened, and what one did in that time, which remains acquired. Uses 1. مَا سَلَفَ, مَا قَدْ سَلَفَ → "what is bygone" : the… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سلق slq To strike with a cutting word: to assail someone with the tongue. Uses 1. سَلَقُوكُم → "they assail you" : the verbal assault, carried by sharp tongues. «سَلَقُوكُم بِأَل… Read the entry → Sealed12 occurrences سلك slk To make pass through a passage, or to pass through it oneself: to insert a thing into what receives it, to follow a way or to open it. Uses 1. سَلَكَ + object + فِى → "to… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences سلل sll To draw gently out of a whole: the extract taken from a matter, and the one who slips away from a group unseen. Uses 1. سُلَٰلَة → "an extract" : a part drawn out of its… Read the entry → Sealed140 occurrences سلم slm To be whole, without flaw or division: the integrity of an intact thing, of a being wholly turned toward God, of a relation without breach, which is peace. Uses 1. أَسْلَ… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences سلو slw Quails: the food given with manna to the sons of Israel. Uses 1. ٱلسَّلْوَىٰ → "quails" : always named with manna, in one formula. «وَأَنزَلْنَا عَلَيْكُمُ ٱلْمَنَّ وَٱلس… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سمد smd To remain heedless, head held high and mind elsewhere, before what ought to seize one. Uses 1. سَٰمِدُونَ → "while you remain heedless" : the indifference that completes… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سمر smr To converse by night: the night gathering where people talk among themselves. Uses 1. سَٰمِر → "conversing by night" : speech held among oneselves, at night. «سَٰمِرًۭا ت… Read the entry → Sealed185 occurrences سمع sm' To perceive by the ear, and to receive what one perceives: to hear, to listen, to make hear; hearing is the faculty, and God the All-Hearing. Uses 1. سَمِعَ, يَسْمَعُ → "… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سمك smk The built height of a structure, what one raises in constructing. Uses 1. سَمْك → "the vault" : the raised part of the built sky. «رَفَعَ سَمْكَهَا» — "elevated its vault… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences سمم smm What passes through a narrow opening: the eye of the needle, and the torrid wind whose heat penetrates even into the pores. Uses 1. سَمّ → "the eye" : the narrowest openi… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences سمن smn The fat of what is well fed: to be fat, to fatten; the opposite of lean. Uses 1. سِمَان, سَمِين → "fat" : the well-fed animal, a sign of abundance. «إِنِّىٓ أَرَىٰ سَبْعَ… Read the entry → Sealed493 occurrences سمو smw What rises and makes itself known: the sky, what is above all; the attribute, the mark that distinguishes a being; and, by the same gesture, to name and to fix. Uses 1. ٱ… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences سنبل snbl The ear of grain: the head of the stalk, which bears the grains grouped together and keeps them. Uses 1. سُنۢبُلَة, سَنَابِل, سُنۢبُلَات → "ear", "ears" : the unit of gra… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سند snd To be propped against a support: to stand by something other than oneself. Uses 1. مُسَنَّدَة → "propped-up" : pieces of wood that hold only by what supports them. «كَأَن… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences سندس snds Fine silk: the light fabric in which the people of the Garden are clothed, always named with brocade. Uses 1. سُندُس → "fine silk" : the fabric of the green clothes of th… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سنم snm What rises above: proper name of a spring of the Garden, Tasnim, from which those brought near drink. Uses 1. تَسْنِيم → "Tasnim" : the spring from which the mixture is d… Read the entry → Sealed21 occurrences سنن snn To shape: to give a clear form, which is kept and reproduced identically. Hence the molded mud, the norm followed from age to age, and the tooth. Uses 1. مَسْنُون → "mold… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سنه snh To let time do its work: what waits through the years and is changed by them. The only use denies it. Uses 1. يَتَسَنَّهْ → "to wait" : to undergo the waiting of the year… Read the entry → Sealed20 occurrences سنو snw The year: the length of a full cycle, counted by number, from a man's life to the thousand years of a divine day. Once, the word سَنَا says the flash, that of lightning.… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سهر shr To stay awake, to keep watch; ٱلسَّاهِرَة names the open surface where those who slept in death find themselves awake. Uses 1. ٱلسَّاهِرَة → "the surface of the world" :… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سهل shl The plain: flat, open land, where one builds with ease, as opposed to the mountain. Uses 1. سُهُولِهَا → "the plains" : the open ground where palaces rise. «تَتَّخِذُونَ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سهم shm To take part in a drawing of lots: to leave to the lot the designation of the one on whom it will fall. Uses 1. سَاهَمَ → "to take part in the drawing of lots" : to take… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences سهو shw To be absent-minded: to perform a thing, or to live, without being present in it. Uses 1. سَاهُون → "absent-minded" : the inner absence beneath an act or a life that goes… Read the entry → Sealed167 occurrences سوء sw' What is bad and does harm: the evil one commits or suffers, what vexes, and the nakedness that it is bad to expose. Uses 1. ٱلسُّوٓء → "evil", "the worst" : evil done or… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سواع swa' Proper noun of a deity of the people of Nuh. The translation keeps the name: "Suwa'". Uses 1. سُوَاع → "Suwa'" : one of the five names the people of Nuh refuse to leave.… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سوح swh The open space before the dwellings: the precinct where a people lives. Uses 1. سَاحَة → "the courtyard" : the near, inhabited place where the punishment descends. «فَإِذ… Read the entry → Sealed10 occurrences سود swd Two uses that the text does not link: black, the colour of things and of the face that darkens; and the chief, the one who has authority over others. Uses 1. أَسْوَد, سُو… Read the entry → Sealed17 occurrences سور swr The enclosure that surrounds and closes: the encircling rampart, the bracelet around the wrist, and the surah, a closed section of the text. Uses 1. سُور → "rampart" : th… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سوط swt The whip; in its single use, the punishment itself, poured out at once. Uses 1. سَوْطَ عَذَابٍ → "a scourge of punishment" : the punishment that strikes, poured upon the… Read the entry → Sealed48 occurrences سوع sw' A fixed point of time, which comes with no one able to advance or delay it: the hour; defined, ٱلسَّاعَة, the Hour of the Day. Uses 1. ٱلسَّاعَة → "the Hour" : the moment… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences سوغ swgh To pass easily down the throat: what is drunk without resistance, or what one cannot manage to swallow. Uses 1. سَآئِغ → "pleasant to drink" : the liquid that passes with… Read the entry → Sealed17 occurrences سوق swq To drive ahead of oneself toward a goal, as one drives a herd; the leg and the stalk, which bear walking and growth, and the market, where goods are driven, come from the… Read the entry → Sealed15 occurrences سوم swm To expose continuously to a state that can be seen: the mark one bears and by which one is recognized, the pasture where beasts go, the punishment inflicted without respi… Read the entry → Sealed83 occurrences سوى swa To set upright: to give a thing its right measure, to make it equal to what it must be or to another; in the reflexive form, to stand upright, to establish oneself. Uses… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سيب syb To let go freely. The only use is a technical name, sa'iba: a category of livestock dedicated and let loose, which the text denies God instituted; the translation transcr… Read the entry → Sealed3 occurrences سيح syh To go freely from one place to another, without hindrance. Uses 1. سِيحُوا۟ → "to move about freely" : to come and go in the land, during a granted delay. «فَسِيحُوا۟ فِى… Read the entry → Sealed27 occurrences سير syr To move across a distance: to travel and traverse, or to be set in motion; and from there, the course, the state in which a thing goes. Uses 1. سِيرُوا۟, يَسِيرُوا۟ → "to… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences سيل syl The flowing of a liquid in mass: the flood, and what pours from a spring; a gift when measured, ruin when it breaks what held it. Uses 1. سَالَ, أَسَالَ → "to flow", "to… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سيناء syna' Place name. The text so names the mount from which comes the tree that gives oil. The translation writes "Sinai". Uses 1. سَيْنَآء → "Sinai" : the Mount, named with ٱلطُّ… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences سينين synyn Place name, joined to طُور: the mountain of Sinai, by which an oath is sworn. The translation writes "Mount Sinai". Uses 1. طُورِ سِينِينَ → "Mount Sinai" : the mountain… Read the entry →