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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 17:48:5

ٱلْأَمْثَالَ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
ٱلْأَمْثَالَ Quranic text
Simple
الْأَمْثَالَ
Without tashkeel
ٱلأمثال
Normalised (searchable)
الامثال

Position

Computed
Verse
17:48
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:17:48:5

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
l-amthāla
Lemma
مَثَل
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCgender: Mnumber: plural

Sub-word segments

  1. ٱلْprefix · DET
  2. أَمْثَالَstem · N · م ث ل

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 17:48 — 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 way
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
See what similitudes they coin for thee, and thus are all astray, and cannot find a road
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
See what likenesses they strike out for thee! But they are in error, neither can they find the path
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Behold, how they strike out for you parables, and err, and cannot find the way
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 5 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form ٱلْأَمْثَالَ appears 5 times in the corpus.

Root م ث ل · 169 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root م ث ل occurs 169 times across 65 distinct forms.

See the full root page for م ث ل

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