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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 11:72:8

شَيْخًا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
11 · Hud
Verse
11:72
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:11:72:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
(is) an old man?
Transliteration
shaykhan
Root
ش ي خsh-y-kh
Lemma
شَيْخ
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCstate: indefinitegender: Mnumber: singularadjective: true

Sub-word segments

  1. شَيْخًاstem · N · ش ي خ

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 11:72 — 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 →

She said, “Alas for me. Shall I give birth, when I am an old woman, and this, my husband, is an old man? This is truly a strange thing.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
She said: Oh woe is me! Shall I bear a child when I am an old woman, and this my husband is an old man? Lo! this is a strange thing
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
She said, "Ah, woe is me! shall I bear a son when I am old, and when this my husband is an old man? This truly would be a marvellous thing
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Said she, ' Alas for me! shall I bear a son when I am an old woman, and this husband of mine an old man? Verily, this is a wonderful thing
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 2 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form شَيْخًا appears 2 times in the corpus.

Root ش ي خ · 4 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ش ي خ occurs 4 times across 3 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ش ي خ →

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