Joseph 12:78Quranic text
قَالُوا۟يَٰٓأَيُّهَاٱلْعَزِيزُإِنَّلَهُۥٓأَبًاشَيْخًاكَبِيرًافَخُذْأَحَدَنَامَكَانَهُۥٓإِنَّانَرَىٰكَمِنَٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ
Reference 12:78Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 12:78:6
أَبًا
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- أَبًا Quranic text
- Simple
- أَبًا
- Without tashkeel
- أبا
- Normalised (searchable)
- ابا
Position
Computed- Surah
- 12 · Joseph
- Verse
- 12:78
- Word in verse
- 6
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:12:78:6
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- a father
- Transliteration
- aban
- Root
- أ ب وe-b-w
- Lemma
- أَب
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: ACCstate: indefinitegender: Mnumber: singular
Sub-word segments
- أَبًاstem · N · أ ب 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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 12:78 — 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 noble prince, he has a father, a very old man, so take one of us in his place. We see that you are a good person.”They said: O ruler of the land! Lo! he hath a very aged father, so take one of us instead of him. Lo! we behold thee of those who do kindnessThey said, "O Prince! Verily he hath a very aged father; in his stead, therefore, take one of us, for we see that thou art a generous personThey said, 'O prince! Verily, he has a father, a very old man; take then one of us instead of him; verily, we can see that thou art of those who do goodSame form · 1 occurrence
ComputedThis exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.
Root أ ب و · 117 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root أ ب و occurs 117 times across 55 distinct forms.
- ءَابَآئِكَ2:133:19
- ءَابَآءَنَآ2:170:14
- ءَابَآؤُهُمْ2:170:17
- ءَابَآءَكُمْ2:200:7
- وَلِأَبَوَيْهِ4:11:23
- أَبَوَاهُ4:11:40
- ءَابَآؤُكُمْ4:11:56
- ءَابَآؤُكُم4:22:5
- ءَابَآءَنَآ5:104:16
- ءَابَآؤُهُمْ5:104:19
- لِأَبِيهِ6:74:4
- ءَابَآئِهِمْ6:87:2
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