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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:17:17

يُبْصِرُونَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
2 · The Cow
Verse
2:17
Word in verse
17
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:17:17

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
(do) they see.
Transliteration
yub'ṣirūna
Root
ب ص رb-sd-r
Lemma
أَبْصَرَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: IMPFmood: INDperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 4

Sub-word segments

  1. يُبْصِرُstem · V · ب ص ر
  2. ونَsuffix · PRON

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 2:17 — 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 →

Their likeness is that of a person who kindled a fire; when it illuminated all around him, God took away their light, and left them in darkness, unable to see
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Their likeness is as the likeness of one who kindleth fire, and when it sheddeth its light around him Allah taketh away their light and leaveth them in darkness, where they cannot see
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
They are like one who kindleth a fire, and when it hath thrown its light on all around him. . . . God taketh away their light and leaveth them in darkness - they cannot see
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Their likeness is as the likeness of one who kindles a fire; and when it lights up all around, God goes off with their light, and leaves them in darkness that they cannot see
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 11 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form يُبْصِرُونَ appears 11 times in the corpus.

Root ب ص ر · 148 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ب ص ر occurs 148 times across 59 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ب ص ر →

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