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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 18:24:14

لِأَقْرَبَ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
لِأَقْرَبَ Quranic text
Simple
لِأَقْرَبَ
Without tashkeel
لأقرب
Normalised (searchable)
لاقرب

Position

Computed
Surah
18 · The Cave
Verse
18:24
Word in verse
14
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:18:24:14

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
to a nearer (way)
Transliteration
li-aqraba
Root
ق ر بq-r-b
Lemma
أَقْرَب
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: GENgender: Mnumber: singular

Sub-word segments

  1. لِprefix · P
  2. أَقْرَبَstem · N · ق ر ب

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 18:24 — 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 →

Without saying, “If God wills.” And remember your Lord if you forget, and say, “Perhaps my Lord will guide me to nearer than this in integrity.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Except if Allah will. And remember thy Lord when thou forgettest, and say: It may be that my Lord guideth me unto a nearer way of truth than this
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Say not thou of a thing, " I will surely do it to-morrow;" without , "If God will." And when thou hast forgotten, call thy Lord to mind; and say, "Haply my Lord will guide me, that I may come near to the truth of this story with correctness
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
except 'if God please;' and remember thy Lord when thou hast forgotten, and say,' It may be that my Lord will guide me to what is nearer to the right than this
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 1 occurrence

Computed

This exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.

Root ق ر ب · 96 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ق ر ب occurs 96 times across 37 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ق ر ب →

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