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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 12:14:6

عُصْبَةٌ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
عُصْبَةٌ Quranic text
Simple
عُصْبَةٌ
Without tashkeel
عصبة
Normalised (searchable)
عصبه

Position

Computed
Surah
12 · Joseph
Verse
12:14
Word in verse
6
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:12:14:6

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
(are) a group,
Transliteration
ʿuṣ'batun
Root
ع ص بaa-sd-b
Lemma
عُصْبَة
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: NOMstate: indefinitegender: F

Sub-word segments

  1. عُصْبَةٌstem · N · ع ص ب

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 12:14 — 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 →

They said, “If the wolf ate him, and we are many, we would be good for nothing.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
They said: If the wolf should devour him when we are (so strong) a band, then surely we should have already perished
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
They said, "Surely if the wolf devour him, and we so many, we must in that case be weak indeed
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Said they, 'Why, if the wolf should devour him while we are (such) a band, verily, we then should deserve to lose
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 3 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form عُصْبَةٌ appears 3 times in the corpus.

Root ع ص ب · 5 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ع ص ب occurs 5 times across 3 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ع ص ب →

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Community

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