Mary 19:29Quranic text
فَأَشَارَتْإِلَيْهِقَالُوا۟كَيْفَنُكَلِّمُمَنكَانَفِىٱلْمَهْدِصَبِيًّا
Reference 19:29Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 19:29:4
كَيْفَ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- كَيْفَ Quranic text
- Simple
- كَيْفَ
- Without tashkeel
- كيف
- Normalised (searchable)
- كيف
Position
ComputedMorphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- "How
- Transliteration
- kayfa
- Root
- ك ي فk-y-f
- Lemma
- كَيْف
- Part of speech
- Interrogative (INTG)
- Features
- —
Sub-word segments
- كَيْفَstem · INTG · ك ي ف
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In context
Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 19:29 — 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 she pointed to him. They said, “How can we speak to an infant in the crib?”Then she pointed to him. They said: How can we talk to one who is in the cradle, a young boyAnd she made a sign to them, pointing towards the babe. They said, "How shall we speak with him who is in the cradle, an infantAnd she pointed to him, and they said, 'How are we to speak with one who is in the cradle a childSame form · 62 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form كَيْفَ appears 62 times in the corpus.
- كَيْفَ2:28:1
- كَيْفَ2:259:52
- كَيْفَ2:260:6
- كَيْفَ3:6:6
- كَيْفَ3:86:1
- كَيْفَ3:137:10
- كَيْفَ4:50:2
- كَيْفَ5:31:8
- كَيْفَ5:64:15
- كَيْفَ5:75:18
- كَيْفَ6:11:7
- كَيْفَ6:24:2
Root ك ي ف · 83 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ك ي ف occurs 83 times across 3 distinct forms.
- كَيْفَ2:28:1
- كَيْفَ2:259:52
- كَيْفَ2:260:6
- كَيْفَ3:6:6
- فَكَيْفَ3:25:1
- كَيْفَ3:86:1
- وَكَيْفَ3:101:1
- كَيْفَ3:137:10
- وَكَيْفَ4:21:1
- فَكَيْفَ4:41:1
- كَيْفَ4:50:2
- فَكَيْفَ4:62:1
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