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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 12:35:2

بَدَا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
12 · Joseph
Verse
12:35
Word in verse
2
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:12:35:2

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
(it) appeared
Transliteration
badā
Root
ب د وb-d-w
Lemma
بَدا
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. بَدَاstem · V · ب د 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 12:35 — 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 →

Then it occurred to them, after they had seen the signs, to imprison him for a while
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And it seemed good to them (the men-folk) after they had seen the signs (of his innocence) to imprison him for a time
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Yet resolved they, even after they had seen the signs of his innocence, to imprison him for a time
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Then it appeared good to them, even after they had seen the signs, to imprison him until a time
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 2 occurrences

Computed

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

Root ب د و · 31 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ب د و occurs 31 times across 20 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ب د و →

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Community

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