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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 18:74:16

نُّكْرًا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
18 · The Cave
Verse
18:74
Word in verse
16
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:18:74:16

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
evil."
Transliteration
nuk'ran
Root
ن ك رn-k-r
Lemma
نُكْر
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCstate: indefinitegender: Mnumber: singularadjective: true

Sub-word segments

  1. نُّكْرًاstem · N · ن ك ر

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 18:74 — 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 they set out. Until, when they encountered a boy, he killed him. He said, “Did you kill a pure soul, who killed no one? You have done something terrible.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
So they twain journeyed on till, when they met a lad, he slew him. (Moses) said: What! Hast thou slain an innocent soul who hath slain no man? Verily thou hast done a horrid thing
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Then went they on till they met a youth, and he slew him. Said Moses, "Hast thou slain him who is free from guilt of blood? Now hast thou wrought a grievous thing
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
So they set out until they met a boy, and he killed him. And he (Moses) said, 'Hast thou killed a pure person without (his killing) a person? thou hast produced an unheard-of thing
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 3 occurrences

Computed

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

Root ن ك ر · 37 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ن ك ر occurs 37 times across 19 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ن ك ر →

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