The Cow 2:138Quranic text
صِبْغَةَٱللَّهِوَمَنْأَحْسَنُمِنَٱللَّهِصِبْغَةًوَنَحْنُلَهُۥعَٰبِدُونَ
Reference 2:138Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:138:4
أَحْسَنُ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- أَحْسَنُ Quranic text
- Simple
- أَحْسَنُ
- Without tashkeel
- أحسن
- Normalised (searchable)
- احسن
Position
Computed- Surah
- 2 · The Cow
- Verse
- 2:138
- Word in verse
- 4
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:138:4
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- (is) better
- Transliteration
- aḥsanu
- Root
- ح س نhh-s-n
- Lemma
- أَحْسَن
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: NOMgender: Mnumber: singular
Sub-word segments
- أَحْسَنُstem · N · ح س ن
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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese 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.”(We take our) colour from Allah, and who is better than Allah at colouring. We are His worshippersIslam is the Baptism of God, and who is better to baptise than God? And Him do we serveThe dye of God! and who is better than God at dyeing? and we are worshippers of HimSame form · 16 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form أَحْسَنُ appears 16 times in the corpus.
- أَحْسَنُ4:125:2
- أَحْسَنُ5:50:5
- أَحْسَنُ6:152:8
- أَحْسَنُ11:7:15
- أَحْسَنُ16:125:11
- أَحْسَنُ17:34:8
- أَحْسَنُ17:53:6
- أَحْسَنُ18:7:10
- أَحْسَنُ19:74:7
- أَحْسَنُ23:14:20
- أَحْسَنُ23:96:4
- أَحْسَنُ29:46:8
Root ح س ن · 194 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ح س ن occurs 194 times across 60 distinct forms.
- ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ2:58:20
- إِحْسَانًا2:83:11
- حُسْنًا2:83:18
- مُحْسِنٌ2:112:7
- بِإِحْسَٰنٍ2:178:25
- وَأَحْسِنُوٓا۟2:195:10
- ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ2:195:14
- حَسَنَةً2:201:8
- حَسَنَةً2:201:11
- بِإِحْسَٰنٍ2:229:7
- ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ2:236:25
- حَسَنًا2:245:7
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