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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 17:58:15

ذَٰلِكَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
17:58
Word in verse
15
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:17:58:15

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
that
Transliteration
dhālika
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
ذا
Part of speech
Demonstrative (DEM)
Features
gender: Mnumber: singular

Sub-word segments

  1. ذَٰstem · DEM
  2. لِsuffix · DIST
  3. كَsuffix · ADDR

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 17:58 — 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 →

There is no city but We will destroy before the Day of Resurrection, or punish it with a severe punishment. This is inscribed in the Book
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
There is not a township but We shall destroy it ere the Day of Resurrection, or punish it with dire punishment. That is set forth in the Book (of Our decrees)
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
There is no city which we will not destroy before the day of Resurrection, or chastise it with a grievous chastisement. This is written in the Book
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
There is no city but we will destroy it before the day of judgment, or torment it with keen torment;- that is in the Book inscribed
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 279 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form ذَٰلِكَ appears 279 times in the corpus.

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