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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 18:64:5

نَبْغِ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
نَبْغِ Quranic text
Simple
نَبْغِ
Without tashkeel
نبغ
Normalised (searchable)
نبغ

Position

Computed
Surah
18 · The Cave
Verse
18:64
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:18:64:5

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
seeking."
Transliteration
nabghi
Root
ب غ يb-gh-y
Lemma
بَغَى
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: IMPFmood: INDperson: 1number: pluralverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. نَبْغِstem · V · ب غ 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 18:64 — 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 →

He said, “This is what we were seeking.” And so they turned back retracing their steps
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
He said: This is that which we have been seeking. So they retraced their steps again
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
He said, "It is this we were in quest of." And they both went back retracing their footsteps
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Said he, 'This is what we were searching for.' So they turned back upon their footsteps, following them up
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 ب غ ي · 96 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ب غ ي occurs 96 times across 55 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ب غ ي →

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