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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 17:21:2

كَيْفَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
17:21
Word in verse
2
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:17:21:2

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
how
Transliteration
kayfa
Lemma
كَيْف
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. كَيْفَstem · N · ك ي ف

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 17:21 — 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 →

See how We have favored some of them over others; yet the Hereafter is greater in ranks, and greater in favors
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
See how We prefer one of them above another, and verily the Hereafter will be greater in degrees and greater in preferment
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
See how we have caused some of them to excel others! but the next life shall be greater in its grades, and greater in excellence
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
See how we have preferred some of them over others, but in the next life are greater degrees and greater preference
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 62 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كَيْفَ appears 62 times in the corpus.

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Root ك ي ف · 83 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ك ي ف occurs 83 times across 3 distinct forms.

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