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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 17:42:9

لَّٱبْتَغَوْا۟

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
لَّٱبْتَغَوْا۟ Quranic text
Simple
لَّابْتَغَوْا
Without tashkeel
لٱبتغوا
Normalised (searchable)
لابتغوا

Position

Computed
Surah
17 · The Night Journey
Verse
17:42
Word in verse
9
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:17:42:9

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
surely they (would) have sought
Transliteration
la-ib'taghaw
Root
ب غ يb-gh-y
Lemma
ابْتَغَى
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 8

Sub-word segments

  1. لَّprefix · EMPH
  2. ٱبْتَغَstem · V · ب غ ي
  3. وْا۟suffix · 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 17:42 — 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 there were other gods with Him, as they say, they would have sought a way to the Lord of the Throne.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Say (O Muhammad, to the disbelievers): If there were other gods along with Him, as they say, then had they sought a way against the Lord of the Throne
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
SAY: If, as ye affirm, there were other gods with Him, they would in that case seek occasion against the occupant of the throne
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Say, 'Were there with Him other gods, as ye say, then would they seek a way against the Lord of the throne
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 ب غ ي · 96 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ب غ ي occurs 96 times across 55 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ب غ ي →

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