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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 14:26:1

وَمَثَلُ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
14:26
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:14:26:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
wamathalu
Lemma
مَثَل
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: NOMgender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  2. مَثَلُstem · N · م ث ل

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 14:26 — 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 →

And the parable of a bad word is that of a bad tree—it is uprooted from the ground; it has no stability
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And the similitude of a bad saying is as a bad tree, uprooted from upon the earth, possessing no stability
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And an evil word is like an evil tree torn up from the face of the earth, and without strength to stand
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And the likeness of a bad word is as a bad tree, which is felled from above the earth, and has no staying place
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 3 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَمَثَلُ appears 3 times in the corpus.

Root م ث ل · 169 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root م ث ل occurs 169 times across 65 distinct forms.

See the full root page for م ث ل

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