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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 16:9:8

شَآءَ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
شَآءَ Quranic text
Simple
شَآءَ
Without tashkeel
شاء
Normalised (searchable)
شاء

Position

Computed
Verse
16:9
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:16:9:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
shāa
Lemma
شاءَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. شَآءَstem · V · ش ي أ

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 16:9 — 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 →

It is for God to point out the paths, but some of them are flawed. Had He willed, He could have guided you all
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And Allah's is the direction of the way, and some (roads) go not straight. And had He willed He would have led you all aright
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Of God it is to point out "the Way." Some turn aside from it: but had He pleased, He had guided you all aright
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
God's it is to show the path; from it some turn aside: but had He pleased He would have guided you one and all
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 56 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form شَآءَ appears 56 times in the corpus.

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Root ش ي أ · 519 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ش ي أ occurs 519 times across 29 distinct forms.

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