The Night Journey 17:40Quranic text
أَفَأَصْفَىٰكُمْرَبُّكُمبِٱلْبَنِينَوَٱتَّخَذَمِنَٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةِإِنَٰثًاإِنَّكُمْلَتَقُولُونَقَوْلًاعَظِيمًا
Reference 17:40Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 17:40:3
بِٱلْبَنِينَ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- بِٱلْبَنِينَ Quranic text
- Simple
- بِالْبَنِينَ
- Without tashkeel
- بٱلبنين
- Normalised (searchable)
- بالبنين
Position
Computed- Verse
- 17:40
- Word in verse
- 3
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:17:40:3
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- sons
- Transliteration
- bil-banīna
- Root
- ب ن يb-n-y
- Lemma
- بُنَىّ
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: GENgender: Mnumber: plural
Sub-word segments
- بِprefix · P
- ٱلْprefix · DET
- بَنِينَstem · N · ب ن ي
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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 17:40 — 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 →
Has your Lord favored you with sons, while choosing for Himself daughters from among the angels? You are indeed saying a terrible thingHath your Lord then distinguished you (O men of Makka) by giving you sons, and hath chosen for Himself females from among the angels? Lo! verily ye speak an awful wordWhat! hath your Lord prepared sons for you, and taken for himself daughters from among the angels? Indeed, ye say a dreadful sayingWhat! has your Lord chosen to give you sons, and shall He take for Himself females from among the angels? verily, ye are speaking a mighty speechSame form · 2 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form بِٱلْبَنِينَ appears 2 times in the corpus.
Root ب ن ي · 184 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ب ن ي occurs 184 times across 74 distinct forms.
- بِنَآءً2:22:7
- يَٰبَنِىٓ2:40:1
- يَٰبَنِىٓ2:47:1
- أَبْنَآءَكُمْ2:49:10
- بَنِىٓ2:83:4
- ٱبْنَ2:87:11
- يَٰبَنِىٓ2:122:1
- بَنِيهِ2:132:4
- يَٰبَنِىَّ2:132:6
- لِبَنِيهِ2:133:10
- أَبْنَآءَهُمْ2:146:7
- وَٱبْنَ2:177:27
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