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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 20:101:3

وَسَآءَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
20 · Taa-Haa
Verse
20:101
Word in verse
3
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:20:101:3

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
and evil
Transliteration
wasāa
Root
س و أs-w-e
Lemma
ساءَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  2. سَآءَstem · V · س و أ

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 20:101 — 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 →

Abiding therein forever. And wretched is their burden on the Day of Resurrection
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Abiding under it - an evil burden for them on the Day of Resurrection
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Under it shall they remain: and grievous, in the day of Resurrection, shall it be to them to bear
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
for them to bear for aye, and evil for them on the resurrection day will it be to bear
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 3 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَسَآءَ appears 3 times in the corpus.

Root س و أ · 167 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root س و أ occurs 167 times across 59 distinct forms.

See the full root page for س و أ →

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