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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 16:79:8

ٱلسَّمَآءِ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
ٱلسَّمَآءِ Quranic text
Simple
السَّمَآءِ
Without tashkeel
ٱلسماء
Normalised (searchable)
السماء

Position

Computed
Verse
16:79
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:16:79:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
l-samāi
Lemma
سَماء
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: GENgender: F

Sub-word segments

  1. ٱلprefix · DET
  2. سَّمَآءِstem · N · س م و

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 16:79 — 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 →

Have they not seen the birds, flying in the midst of the sky? None sustains them except God. In this are signs for people who believe
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Have they not seen the birds obedient in mid-air? None holdeth them save Allah. Lo! herein, verily, are portents for a people who believe
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Have they never looked up at the birds subjected to Him in Heaven's vault? None holdeth them in hand but God! In this are signs for those who believe
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Do they not see the birds subjected in the vault of the sky?- none holds them in but God: verily, in that is a sign unto a people who believe
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 81 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form ٱلسَّمَآءِ appears 81 times in the corpus.

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Root س م و · 493 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root س م و occurs 493 times across 39 distinct forms.

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