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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 17:8:1

عَسَىٰ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
عَسَىٰ Quranic text
Simple
عَسَىٰ
Without tashkeel
عسى
Normalised (searchable)
عسي

Position

Computed
Surah
17 · The Night Journey
Verse
17:8
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:17:8:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
"It may be (that)
Transliteration
ʿasā
Root
ع س يaa-s-y
Lemma
عَسَى
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. عَسَىٰstem · V · ع س 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 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 17:8 — 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 →

Perhaps your Lord will have mercy on you. But if you revert, We will revert. We have made Hell a prison for the disbelievers
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
It may be that your Lord will have mercy on you, but if ye repeat (the crime) We shall repeat (the punishment), and We have appointed hell a dungeon for the disbelievers
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Haply your Lord will have mercy on you! but if ye return, we will return: and we have appointed Hell - the prison of the infidels
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
It may be that thy Lord will have mercy on you;- but if ye return we will return, and we have made hell a prison for the misbelievers
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 6 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form عَسَىٰ appears 6 times in the corpus.

Root ع س ي · 30 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ع س ي occurs 30 times across 8 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ع س ي →

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Community

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