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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 1:1:1

بِسْمِ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
بِسْمِ Quranic text
Simple
بِسْمِ
Without tashkeel
بسم
Normalised (searchable)
بسم

Position

Computed
Surah
1 · The Opening
Verse
1:1
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:1:1:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
In (the) name
Transliteration
bis'mi
Root
س م وs-m-w
Lemma
اسْم
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: GENgender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. بِprefix · P
  2. سْمِstem · N · س م و

Morphology is an external annotation from the Leeds Quranic Arabic Corpus, licensed GPL-2.0-or-later. It is not Quranic text and never alters the token.

In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 1:1 — the whole verse this word appears in — not this word alone. The correspondence is verse-level: no word-level alignment of translations exists for these editions, so we do not claim which English word renders this Arabic word. Compare the editions →

In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 113 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form بِسْمِ appears 113 times in the corpus.

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Root س م و · 493 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root س م و occurs 493 times across 39 distinct forms.

See the full root page for س م و →

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