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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 18:79:17

غَصْبًا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
18 · The Cave
Verse
18:79
Word in verse
17
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:18:79:17

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
(by) force.
Transliteration
ghaṣban
Root
غ ص بgh-sd-b
Lemma
غَصْب
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCstate: indefinitegender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. غَصْبًاstem · N · غ ص 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 18:79 — 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 →

As for the boat, it belonged to paupers working at sea. I wanted to damage it because there was a king coming after them seizing every boat by force
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
As for the ship, it belonged to poor people working on the river, and I wished to mar it, for there was a king behind them who is taking every ship by force
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
As to the vessel, it belonged to poor men who toiled upon the sea, and I was minded to damage it, for in their rear was a king who seized every ship by force
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
As for the bark it belonged to poor people, who toiled on the sea, and I wished to damage it, for behind it was a king who seized on every bark by force
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 غ ص ب · 1 occurrence

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root غ ص ب occurs 1 time across 1 distinct form.

See the full root page for غ ص ب →

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