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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 15:4:2

أَهْلَكْنَا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
أَهْلَكْنَا Quranic text
Simple
أَهْلَكْنَا
Without tashkeel
أهلكنا
Normalised (searchable)
اهلكنا

Position

Computed
Verse
15:4
Word in verse
2
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:15:4:2

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
ahlaknā
Lemma
أَهْلَكَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 1number: pluralverb_form: 4

Sub-word segments

  1. أَهْلَكْstem · V · ه ل ك
  2. نَاsuffix · PRON

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 15:4 — 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 →

We have never destroyed a town unless it had a set time
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And We destroyed no township but there was a known decree for it
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
We never destroyed a city whose term was not perfixed
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
We never destroyed a city without it had its noted doom
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 15 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form أَهْلَكْنَا appears 15 times in the corpus.

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Root ه ل ك · 68 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ه ل ك occurs 68 times across 40 distinct forms.

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