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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:69:14

صَفْرَآءُ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
2 · The Cow
Verse
2:69
Word in verse
14
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:69:14

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
yellow,
Transliteration
ṣafrāu
Root
ص ف رsd-f-r
Lemma
صَفْراء
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: NOMadjective: true

Sub-word segments

  1. صَفْرَآءُstem · N · ص ف ر

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 2:69 — 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 →

They said, “Call upon your Lord to show us what her color is.” He said, “He says she is a yellow heifer, bright in color, pleasing to the beholders.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
They said: Pray for us unto thy Lord that He make clear to us of what colour she is. (Moses) answered: Lo! He saith: Verily she is a yellow cow. Bright is her colour, gladdening beholders
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
They said, "Call on your Lord for us, that he would make plain to us what is her colour." He said, "God saith, 'She is a fawn-coloured cow; her colour is very bright; she rejoiceth the beholders
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
They said, 'Pray now thy Lord to show us what her colour is to be.' He answered, 'He saith it is a dun cow, intensely dun, her colour delighting those who look upon her
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 1 occurrence

Computed

This exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.

Root ص ف ر · 5 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ص ف ر occurs 5 times across 3 distinct forms.

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