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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 18:40:12

ٱلسَّمَآءِ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
ٱلسَّمَآءِ Quranic text
Simple
السَّمَآءِ
Without tashkeel
ٱلسماء
Normalised (searchable)
السماء

Position

Computed
Verse
18:40
Word in verse
12
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:18:40:12

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
l-samāi
Lemma
سَماء
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: GENgender: F

Sub-word segments

  1. ٱلprefix · DET
  2. سَّمَآءِstem · N · س م و

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 18:40 — 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 my Lord will give me something better than your garden, and release upon it thunderbolts from the sky, so it becomes barren waste
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Yet it may be that my Lord will give me better than thy garden, and will send on it a bolt from heaven, and some morning it will be a smooth hillside
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Yet haply my Lord may bestow on me better than thy garden, and may send his bolts upon it out of Heaven, so that the next dawn shall find it barren dust
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
but haply my Lord will give me something better than thy garden, and will send upon it thunder-claps from the sky, and it shall be on the morrow bare slippery soil
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 81 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form ٱلسَّمَآءِ appears 81 times in the corpus.

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Root س م و · 493 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root س م و occurs 493 times across 39 distinct forms.

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