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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 18:109:17

بِمِثْلِهِۦ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
بِمِثْلِهِۦ Quranic text
Simple
بِمِثْلِهِ
Without tashkeel
بمثله
Normalised (searchable)
بمثله

Position

Computed
Surah
18 · The Cave
Verse
18:109
Word in verse
17
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:18:109:17

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
(the) like (of) it
Transliteration
bimith'lihi
Root
م ث لm-th-l
Lemma
مِثْل
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: GENgender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. بِprefix · P
  2. مِثْلِstem · N · م ث ل
  3. هِۦsuffix · 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 18:109 — 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 the ocean were ink for the words of my Lord, the ocean would run out, before the words of my Lord run out,” even if We were to bring the like of it in addition to it
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Say: Though the sea became ink for the Words of my Lord, verily the sea would be used up before the words of my Lord were exhausted, even though We brought the like thereof to help
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
SAY: Should the sea become ink, to write the words of my Lord, the sea would surely fail ere the words of my Lord would fail, though we brought its like in aid
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Say, 'Were the sea ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would surely fail before the words of my Lord fail; aye, though we brought as much ink again
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 2 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form بِمِثْلِهِۦ appears 2 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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