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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:207:6

ٱبْتِغَآءَ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
ٱبْتِغَآءَ Quranic text
Simple
ابْتِغَآءَ
Without tashkeel
ٱبتغاء
Normalised (searchable)
ابتغاء

Position

Computed
Verse
2:207
Word in verse
6
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:207:6

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
seeking
Transliteration
ib'tighāa
Lemma
ابْتِغاء
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCgender: Mderivation: VNverb_form: 8

Sub-word segments

  1. ٱبْتِغَآءَstem · N · ب غ ي

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 2:207 — 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 among the people is he who sells himself seeking God’s approval. God is kind towards the servants
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And of mankind is he who would sell himself, seeking the pleasure of Allah; and Allah hath compassion on (His) bondmen
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
A man, too, there is who selleth his very self out of desire to please God: and God is good to his servants
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And there is among men one who selleth his soul craving, those things that are pleasing unto God and God is kind unto His servants
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 10 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form ٱبْتِغَآءَ appears 10 times in the corpus.

Root ب غ ي · 96 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ب غ ي occurs 96 times across 55 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ب غ ي

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