Joseph 12:78Quranic text
قَالُوا۟يَٰٓأَيُّهَاٱلْعَزِيزُإِنَّلَهُۥٓأَبًاشَيْخًاكَبِيرًافَخُذْأَحَدَنَامَكَانَهُۥٓإِنَّانَرَىٰكَمِنَٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ
Reference 12:78Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 12:78:7
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
- 12 · Joseph
- Verse
- 12:78
- Word in verse
- 7
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:12:78:7
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- old
- 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
- شَيْخًاstem · N · ش ي خ
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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 · 2 occurrences
ComputedThis 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.
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