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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 16:68:4

ٱلنَّحْلِ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
ٱلنَّحْلِ Quranic text
Simple
النَّحْلِ
Without tashkeel
ٱلنحل
Normalised (searchable)
النحل

Position

Computed
Surah
16 · The Bee
Verse
16:68
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:16:68:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
the bee,
Transliteration
l-naḥli
Root
ن ح لn-hh-l
Lemma
نَحْل
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: GENgender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. ٱلprefix · DET
  2. نَّحْلِstem · N · ن ح 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 16:68 — 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 your Lord inspired the bee: “Set up hives in the mountains, and in the trees, and in what they construct.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And thy Lord inspired the bee, saying: Choose thou habitations in the hills and in the trees and in that which they thatch
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And thy Lord hath taught the BEE, saying: "Provide thee houses in the mountains, and in the trees, and in the hives which men do build thee
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And thy Lord inspired the bee, 'Take to houses in the mountains, and in the trees, and in the hives they build
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 ن ح ل · 2 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ن ح ل occurs 2 times across 2 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ن ح ل →

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