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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:78:5

ٱلْكِتَٰبَ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
ٱلْكِتَٰبَ Quranic text
Simple
الْكِتَٰبَ
Without tashkeel
ٱلكتب
Normalised (searchable)
الكتب

Position

Computed
Verse
2:78
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:78:5

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
l-kitāba
Lemma
كِتاب
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCgender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. ٱلْprefix · DET
  2. كِتَٰبَstem · N · ك ت ب

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 2:78 — 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 them are uneducated who know the Scripture only through hearsay, and they only speculate
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Among them are unlettered folk who know the Scripture not except from hearsay. They but guess
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
But there are illiterates among them who are unacquainted with the Book, but with lies only, and have but vague fancies
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And some of them there are, illiterate folk, that know not the Book, but only idle tales; for they do but fancy
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 78 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form ٱلْكِتَٰبَ appears 78 times in the corpus.

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Root ك ت ب · 319 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ك ت ب occurs 319 times across 61 distinct forms.

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