The Bee 16:103Quranic text
وَلَقَدْنَعْلَمُأَنَّهُمْيَقُولُونَإِنَّمَايُعَلِّمُهُۥبَشَرٌلِّسَانُٱلَّذِىيُلْحِدُونَإِلَيْهِأَعْجَمِىٌّوَهَٰذَالِسَانٌعَرَبِىٌّمُّبِينٌ
Reference 16:103Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 16:103:14
لِسَانٌ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- لِسَانٌ Quranic text
- Simple
- لِسَانٌ
- Without tashkeel
- لسان
- Normalised (searchable)
- لسان
Position
Computed- Surah
- 16 · The Bee
- Verse
- 16:103
- Word in verse
- 14
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:16:103:14
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- (is) a language
- Transliteration
- lisānun
- Root
- ل س نl-s-n
- Lemma
- لِسان
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: NOMstate: indefinitegender: M
Sub-word segments
- لِسَانٌstem · N · ل س ن
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 16:103 — 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 are well aware that they say, “It is a human being who is teaching him.” But the tongue of him they allude to is foreign, while this is a clear Arabic tongueAnd We know well that they say: Only a man teacheth him. The speech of him at whom they falsely hint is outlandish, and this is clear Arabic speechWe also know that they say, "Surely a certain person teacheth him." But the tongue of him at whom they hint is foreign, while this Koran is in the plain ArabicWe knew that they said, 'It is only some mortal who teaches him.' - The tongue of him they lean towards is barbarous, and this is plain ArabicSame form · 1 occurrence
ComputedThis exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.
Root ل س ن · 25 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ل س ن occurs 25 times across 23 distinct forms.
- أَلْسِنَتَهُم3:78:5
- بِأَلْسِنَتِهِمْ4:46:16
- لِسَانِ5:78:8
- بِلِسَانِ14:4:6
- أَلْسِنَتُهُمُ16:62:6
- لِّسَانُ16:103:8
- أَلْسِنَتُكُمُ16:116:5
- لِسَانَ19:50:7
- بِلِسَانِكَ19:97:3
- لِّسَانِى20:27:4
- بِأَلْسِنَتِكُمْ24:15:3
- أَلْسِنَتُهُمْ24:24:4
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