16سَنَسِمُهُ عَلَى الخُرطومِMuhammad Asad[For this] We shall brand him with indelible disgrace!1Lit., "We shall brand him on the snout" (khurtum). All commentators point out that this, idiomatic phrase has a strictly metaphorical meaning, namely, "We shall stigmatize him with indelible disgrace" (cf. Lane II, 724, quoting both Raghib and Taj al-'Arus).