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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 16:26:13

ٱلسَّقْفُ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
ٱلسَّقْفُ Quranic text
Simple
السَّقْفُ
Without tashkeel
ٱلسقف
Normalised (searchable)
السقف

Position

Computed
Surah
16 · The Bee
Verse
16:26
Word in verse
13
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:16:26:13

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
the roof
Transliteration
l-saqfu
Root
س ق فs-q-f
Lemma
سَقْف
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: NOMgender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. ٱلprefix · DET
  2. سَّقْفُstem · N · س ق 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 16:26 — 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 →

Those before them also schemed, but God took their structures from the foundations, and the roof caved in on them. The punishment came at them from where they did not perceive
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Those before them plotted, so Allah struck at the foundations of their building, and then the roof fell down upon them from above them, and the doom came on them whence they knew not
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
They who were before them did plot of old. But God attacked their building at its foundation the roof fell on them from above; and, whence they looked not for it, punishment overtook them
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Those who were before them devised a stratagem, but God brought their building off its foundations, and the roof fell over them, and the torment came to them, from whence they could not perceive
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 1 occurrence

Computed

This exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.

Root س ق ف · 4 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root س ق ف occurs 4 times across 4 distinct forms.

See the full root page for س ق ف →

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