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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 10:81:8

ٱلسِّحْرُ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
ٱلسِّحْرُ Quranic text
Simple
السِّحْرُ
Without tashkeel
ٱلسحر
Normalised (searchable)
السحر

Position

Computed
Surah
10 · Jonas
Verse
10:81
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:10:81:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
(is) the magic.
Transliteration
l-siḥ'ru
Root
س ح رs-hh-r
Lemma
سِحْر
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: NOMgender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. ٱلprefix · DET
  2. سِّحْرُstem · N · س ح ر

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 10:81 — 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 →

And when they threw, Moses said, “What you produced is sorcery, and God will make it fail. God does not foster the efforts of the corrupt.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And when they had cast, Moses said: That which ye have brought is magic. Lo! Allah will make it vain. Lo! Allah upholdeth not the work of mischief-makers
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And when they had cast them down, Moses said, "Verily, God will render vain the sorceries which ye have brought to pass: God prospereth not the work of the evildoers
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
and when they threw down, Moses said, 'What ye have brought is sorcery! verily, God will make it vain; verily, God rights not the work of evildoers
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 1 occurrence

Computed

This exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.

Root س ح ر · 63 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root س ح ر occurs 63 times across 33 distinct forms.

See the full root page for س ح ر →

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