فَمَاٱسْطَٰعُوٓا۟أَنيَظْهَرُوهُوَمَاٱسْتَطَٰعُوا۟لَهُۥنَقْبًا
Reference 18:97Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 18:97:2
ٱسْطَٰعُوٓا۟
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- ٱسْطَٰعُوٓا۟ Quranic text
- Simple
- اسْطَٰعُوٓا
- Without tashkeel
- ٱسطعوا
- Normalised (searchable)
- اسطعوا
Position
Computed- Surah
- 18 · The Cave
- Verse
- 18:97
- Word in verse
- 2
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:18:97:2
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- they were able
- Transliteration
- is'ṭāʿū
- Root
- ط و عtt-w-aa
- Lemma
- اسْتَطاعَ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 10
Sub-word segments
- ٱسْطَٰعُstem · V · ط و ع
- وٓا۟suffix · PRON
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 1.1The Cave 18:97Quranic text
How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 18:97 — 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 were unable to climb it, and they could not penetrate itAnd (Gog and Magog) were not able to surmount, nor could they pierce (it)And Gog and Magog were not able to scale it, neither were they able to dig through itSo they could not scale it, and they could not tunnel itSame form · 1 occurrence
ComputedThis exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.
Root ط و ع · 129 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ط و ع occurs 129 times across 51 distinct forms.
- تَطَوَّعَ2:158:19
- تَطَوَّعَ2:184:21
- ٱسْتَطَٰعُوا۟2:217:37
- يَسْتَطِيعُونَ2:273:8
- يَسْتَطِيعُ2:282:45
- وَأَطَعْنَا2:285:23
- أَطِيعُوا۟3:32:2
- وَأَطِيعُونِ3:50:19
- طَوْعًا3:83:11
- ٱسْتَطَاعَ3:97:16
- تُطِيعُوا۟3:100:5
- وَأَطِيعُوا۟3:132:1
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