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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:138:10

عَٰبِدُونَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
2 · The Cow
Verse
2:138
Word in verse
10
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:138:10

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
(are) worshippers.
Transliteration
ʿābidūna
Root
ع ب دaa-b-d
Lemma
عابِد
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: NOMgender: Mnumber: pluralderivation: ACT_PCPLverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. عَٰبِدُونَstem · N · ع ب د

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 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 2:138 — 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 →

God’s coloring. And who gives better coloring than God? “And we are devoted to Him.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
(We take our) colour from Allah, and who is better than Allah at colouring. We are His worshippers
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Islam is the Baptism of God, and who is better to baptise than God? And Him do we serve
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
The dye of God! and who is better than God at dyeing? and we are worshippers of Him
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 4 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form عَٰبِدُونَ appears 4 times in the corpus.

Root ع ب د · 275 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ع ب د occurs 275 times across 109 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ع ب د →

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Community

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