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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 20:116:9

أَبَىٰ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
أَبَىٰ Quranic text
Simple
أَبَىٰ
Without tashkeel
أبى
Normalised (searchable)
ابي

Position

Computed
Surah
20 · Taa-Haa
Verse
20:116
Word in verse
9
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:20:116:9

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
he refused.
Transliteration
abā
Root
أ ب يe-b-y
Lemma
أَبَى
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. أَبَىٰstem · V · أ ب ي

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 20:116 — 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 when We said to the angels, “Bow down to Adam.” They bowed down, except for Satan; he refused
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And when We said unto the angels: Fall prostrate before Adam, they fell prostrate (all) save Iblis; he refused
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And when We said to the angels, "Fall down and worship Adam," they worshipped all, save Eblis, who refused
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And when we said to the angels, ' Adore Adam,' they adored, save Iblis, who refused
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 2 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form أَبَىٰ appears 2 times in the corpus.

Root أ ب ي · 13 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root أ ب ي occurs 13 times across 10 distinct forms.

See the full root page for أ ب ي →

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