Joseph 12:17Quranic text
قَالُوا۟يَٰٓأَبَانَآإِنَّاذَهَبْنَانَسْتَبِقُوَتَرَكْنَايُوسُفَعِندَمَتَٰعِنَافَأَكَلَهُٱلذِّئْبُوَمَآأَنتَبِمُؤْمِنٍلَّنَاوَلَوْكُنَّاصَٰدِقِينَ
Reference 12:17Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 12:17:9
مَتَٰعِنَا
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- مَتَٰعِنَا Quranic text
- Simple
- مَتَٰعِنَا
- Without tashkeel
- متعنا
- Normalised (searchable)
- متعنا
Position
Computed- Surah
- 12 · Joseph
- Verse
- 12:17
- Word in verse
- 9
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:12:17:9
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- our possessions,
- Transliteration
- matāʿinā
- Root
- م ت عm-t-aa
- Lemma
- مَتاع
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: GENgender: M
Sub-word segments
- مَتَٰعِstem · N · م ت ع
- نَاsuffix · PRON
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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 12:17 — 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, “O father, we went off racing one another, and left Joseph by our belongings; and the wolf ate him. But you will not believe us, even though we are being truthful.”Saying: O our father! We went racing one with another, and left Joseph by our things, and the wolf devoured him, and thou believest not our saying even when we speak the truthThey said, "O our Father! of a truth, we went to run races, and we left Joseph with our clothes, and the wolf devoured him: but thou wilt not believe us even though we speak the truthsaid, 'O our father! verily, we went forth to race and left Joseph by our goods, and the wolf devoured him,- but thou wilt not believe us, truth tellers though we beSame form · 1 occurrence
ComputedThis exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.
Root م ت ع · 70 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root م ت ع occurs 70 times across 45 distinct forms.
- وَمَتَٰعٌ2:36:17
- فَأُمَتِّعُهُۥ2:126:22
- تَمَتَّعَ2:196:37
- وَمَتِّعُوهُنَّ2:236:14
- مَتَٰعًۢا2:236:21
- مَّتَٰعًا2:240:8
- مَتَٰعٌۢ2:241:2
- مَتَٰعُ3:14:18
- مَتَٰعُ3:185:22
- مَتَٰعٌ3:197:1
- ٱسْتَمْتَعْتُم4:24:23
- مَتَٰعُ4:77:39
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