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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 18:86:4

مَغْرِبَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
18 · The Cave
Verse
18:86
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:18:86:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
(the) setting place
Transliteration
maghriba
Root
غ ر بgh-r-b
Lemma
مَغْرِب
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCgender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. مَغْرِبَstem · N · غ ر ب

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 18:86 — 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 →

Until, when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it setting in a murky spring, and found a people in its vicinity. We said, “O Zul-Qarnain, you may either inflict a penalty, or else treat them kindly.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Till, when he reached the setting-place of the sun, he found it setting in a muddy spring, and found a people thereabout. We said: O Dhu'l-Qarneyn! Either punish or show them kindness
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Until when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it to set in a miry fount; and hard by he found a people. We said, "O Dhoulkarnain! either chastise or treat them generously
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
until when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it setting in a black muddy spring, and he found thereat a people.' We said, 'O Dhu 'l Qarnain! thou mayest either torment these people, or treat them well
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 ر ب · 19 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root غ ر ب occurs 19 times across 16 distinct forms.

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