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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 18:71:14

شَيْـًٔا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
شَيْـًٔا Quranic text
Simple
شَئًْا
Without tashkeel
شيـا
Normalised (searchable)
شيا

Position

Computed
Verse
18:71
Word in verse
14
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:18:71:14

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
a thing
Transliteration
shayan
Lemma
شَىْء
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCstate: indefinitegender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. شَيْـًٔاstem · N · ش ي أ

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 18:71 — 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 →

So they set out. Until, when they had boarded the boat, he holed it. He said, “Did you hole it, to drown its passengers? You have done something awful.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
So they twain set out till, when they were in the ship, he made a hole therein. (Moses) said: Hast thou made a hole therein to drown the folk thereof? Thou verily hast done a dreadful thing
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
So they both went on, till they embarked in a ship, and he - the unknown - staved it in. "What!" said Moses, "hast thou staved it in that thou mayest drown its crew? a strange thing now hast thou done
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
So they set out until when they rode in the bark, he scuttled it. Said he, 'Hast thou scuttled it to drown its crew? Thou hast produced a strange thing
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 77 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form شَيْـًٔا appears 77 times in the corpus.

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Root ش ي أ · 519 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ش ي أ occurs 519 times across 29 distinct forms.

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