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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 17:100:9

لَّأَمْسَكْتُمْ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
لَّأَمْسَكْتُمْ Quranic text
Simple
لَّأَمْسَكْتُمْ
Without tashkeel
لأمسكتم
Normalised (searchable)
لامسكتم

Position

Computed
Verse
17:100
Word in verse
9
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:17:100:9

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
la-amsaktum
Lemma
أَمْسَكَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 2gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 4

Sub-word segments

  1. لَّprefix · EMPH
  2. أَمْسَكْstem · V · م س ك
  3. تُمْsuffix · PRON

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 17:100 — 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 →

Say, “If you possessed the treasuries of my Lord’s mercy, you would have withheld them for fear of spending.” The human being has always been stingy
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Say (unto them): If ye possessed the treasures of the mercy of my Lord, ye would surely hold them back for fear of spending, for man was ever grudging
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
SAY: If ye held the treasures of my Lord's mercy ye would certainly refrain from them through fear of spending them: for man is covetous
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Say, 'Did ye control the treasuries of the mercy of my Lord, then ye would hold them through fear of expending; for man is ever niggardly
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 م س ك · 27 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root م س ك occurs 27 times across 22 distinct forms.

See the full root page for م س ك

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