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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:101:16

كِتَٰبَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
2 · The Cow
Verse
2:101
Word in verse
16
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:101:16

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
(the) Book
Transliteration
kitāba
Root
ك ت بk-t-b
Lemma
كِتاب
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCgender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. كِتَٰبَstem · N · ك ت ب

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 2:101 — 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 →

And when there came to them a messenger from God, confirming what they had, a faction of those who were given the Book threw the Book of God behind their backs, as if they do not know
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And when there cometh unto them a messenger from Allah, confirming that which they possess, a party of those who have received the Scripture fling the Scripture of Allah behind their backs as if they knew not
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And when there came to them an apostle from God, affirming the previous revelations made to them, some of those to whom the Scriptures were given, threw the Book of God behind their backs as if they knew it not
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And when there comes to them an apostle confirming what they have, a part of those who have received the Book repudiate God's book, casting it behind their backs as though they did not know
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 5 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كِتَٰبَ appears 5 times in the corpus.

Root ك ت ب · 319 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ك ت ب occurs 319 times across 61 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ك ت ب →

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