Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 19:17:8

فَتَمَثَّلَ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): فَتَمَثَّلَ Quranic text
Simple: فَتَمَثَّلَ
Without tashkeel: فتمثل
Normalised (searchable): فتمثل

Position

Computed

Surah: 19 · Mary
Verse: 19:17
Word in verse: 8
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:19:17:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: then he assumed the likeness
Transliteration: fatamathala

Root: م ث لm-th-l
Lemma: تَمَثَّلَ
Part of speech: Verb (V)
Features: tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 5

Sub-word segments

فَprefix · CONJ
تَمَثَّلَstem · V · م ث ل

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

Mary 19:17Quranic text

فَٱتَّخَذَتْ مِن دُونِهِمْ حِجَابًا فَأَرْسَلْنَآ إِلَيْهَا رُوحَنَا فَتَمَثَّلَ لَهَا بَشَرًا سَوِيًّا

← رُوحَنَا 19:17:7 لَهَا 19:17:9 →

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 19:17 — 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 →

She screened herself away from them, and We sent to her Our spirit, and He appeared to her as an immaculate human

Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

And had chosen seclusion from them. Then We sent unto her Our Spirit and it assumed for her the likeness of a perfect man

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

And took a veil to shroud herself from them: and we sent our spirit to her, and he took before her the form of a perfect man

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

and she took a veil (to screen herself) from them; and we sent unto her our spirit; and he took for her the semblance of a well-made man

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 م ث ل · 169 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root م ث ل occurs 169 times across 65 distinct forms.

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