The Night Journey 17:48Quranic text
ٱنظُرْكَيْفَضَرَبُوا۟لَكَٱلْأَمْثَالَفَضَلُّوا۟فَلَايَسْتَطِيعُونَسَبِيلًا
Reference 17:48Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 17:48:2
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
- 17:48
- Word in verse
- 2
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:17:48:2
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- how
- Transliteration
- kayfa
- Root
- ك ي فk-y-f
- Lemma
- كَيْف
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- —
Sub-word segments
- كَيْفَstem · N · ك ي ف
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 17:48 — 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 →
Note what they compared you to. They are lost, and unable to find a waySee what similitudes they coin for thee, and thus are all astray, and cannot find a roadSee what likenesses they strike out for thee! But they are in error, neither can they find the pathBehold, how they strike out for you parables, and err, and cannot find the waySame form · 62 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form كَيْفَ appears 62 times in the corpus.
- كَيْفَ2:28:1
- كَيْفَ2:259:52
- كَيْفَ2:260:6
- كَيْفَ3:6:6
- كَيْفَ3:86:1
- كَيْفَ3:137:10
- كَيْفَ4:50:2
- كَيْفَ5:31:8
- كَيْفَ5:64:15
- كَيْفَ5:75:18
- كَيْفَ6:11:7
- كَيْفَ6:24:2
Root ك ي ف · 83 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ك ي ف occurs 83 times across 3 distinct forms.
- كَيْفَ2:28:1
- كَيْفَ2:259:52
- كَيْفَ2:260:6
- كَيْفَ3:6:6
- فَكَيْفَ3:25:1
- كَيْفَ3:86:1
- وَكَيْفَ3:101:1
- كَيْفَ3:137:10
- وَكَيْفَ4:21:1
- فَكَيْفَ4:41:1
- كَيْفَ4:50:2
- فَكَيْفَ4:62:1
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