Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 18:12:4

أَىُّ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): أَىُّ Quranic text
Simple: أَىُّ
Without tashkeel: أى
Normalised (searchable): اي

Position

Computed

Surah: 18 · The Cave
Verse: 18:12
Word in verse: 4
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:18:12:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: which
Transliteration: ayyu

Root: أ ي يe-y-y
Lemma: أَيّ
Part of speech: Interrogative (INTG)
Features: case: NOM

Sub-word segments

أَىُّstem · INTG · أ ي ي

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

The Cave 18:12Quranic text

ثُمَّ بَعَثْنَٰهُمْ لِنَعْلَمَ أَىُّ ٱلْحِزْبَيْنِ أَحْصَىٰ لِمَا لَبِثُوٓا۟أَمَدًا

← لِنَعْلَمَ 18:12:3 ٱلْحِزْبَيْنِ 18:12:5 →

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 18:12 — 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 →

Then We awakened them to know which of the two groups could better calculate the length of their stay

Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

And afterward We raised them up that We might know which of the two parties would best calculate the time that they had tarried

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

Then we awaked them that we might know which of the two parties could best reckon the space of their abiding

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

Then we raised them up again, that we might know which of the two crews could best calculate the time of their tarrying

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 3 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form أَىُّ appears 3 times in the corpus.

Root أ ي ي · 597 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root أ ي ي occurs 597 times across 67 distinct forms.

See the full root page for أ ي ي →

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