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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 14:24:3

كَيْفَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
14:24
Word in verse
3
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:14:24:3

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
how
Transliteration
kayfa
Lemma
كَيْف
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. كَيْفَstem · N · ك ي ف

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 14:24 — 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 →

Do you not see how God presents a parable? A good word is like a good tree—its root is firm, and its branches are in the sky
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Seest thou not how Allah coineth a similitude: A goodly saying, as a goodly tree, its root set firm, its branches reaching into heaven
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Seest thou not to what God likeneth a good word? To a good tree: its root firmly fixed, and its branches in the Heaven
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Dost thou not see how God strikes out a parable? A good word is like a good tree whose root is firm, and whose branches are in the sky
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 62 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كَيْفَ appears 62 times in the corpus.

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Root ك ي ف · 83 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ك ي ف occurs 83 times across 3 distinct forms.

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