Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 16:60:8

ٱلْمَثَلُ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): ٱلْمَثَلُ Quranic text
Simple: الْمَثَلُ
Without tashkeel: ٱلمثل
Normalised (searchable): المثل

Position

Computed

Surah: 16 · The Bee
Verse: 16:60
Word in verse: 8
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:16:60:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: (is) the similitude
Transliteration: l-mathalu

Root: م ث لm-th-l
Lemma: مَثَل
Part of speech: Noun (N)
Features: case: NOMgender: M

Sub-word segments

ٱلْprefix · DET
مَثَلُstem · N · م ث ل

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

The Bee 16:60Quranic text

لِلَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ مَثَلُ ٱلسَّوْءِ وَلِلَّهِ ٱلْمَثَلُ ٱلْأَعْلَىٰ وَهُوَ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلْحَكِيمُ

← وَلِلَّهِ 16:60:7 ٱلْأَعْلَىٰ 16:60:9 →

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 16:60 — 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 who do not believe in the Hereafter set a bad example, while God sets the Highest Example. He is the Mighty, the Wise

Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

For those who believe not in the Hereafter is an evil similitude, and Allah's is the Sublime Similitude. He is the Mighty, the Wise

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

To whatever is evil may they be likened who believe not in a future life; but God is to be likened to whatever is loftiest: for He is the Mighty, the Wise

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

For those who disbelieve in the future life is a similitude of evil: but for God is the loftiest similitude; for He is the mighty, the wise

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 2 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form ٱلْمَثَلُ appears 2 times in the corpus.

ٱلْمَثَلُ30:27:11

Root م ث ل · 169 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

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

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