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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 20:63:13

ٱلْمُثْلَىٰ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
ٱلْمُثْلَىٰ Quranic text
Simple
الْمُثْلَىٰ
Without tashkeel
ٱلمثلى
Normalised (searchable)
المثلي

Position

Computed
Surah
20 · Taa-Haa
Verse
20:63
Word in verse
13
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:20:63:13

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
the exemplary.
Transliteration
l-muth'lā
Root
م ث لm-th-l
Lemma
مُثْلَى
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: GENgender: Fnumber: singularadjective: true

Sub-word segments

  1. ٱلْprefix · DET
  2. مُثْلَىٰstem · N · م ث ل

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 20:63 — 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, “These two are magicians who want to drive you out of your land with their magic, and to abolish your exemplary way of life
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
They said: Lo! these are two wizards who would drive you out from your country by their magic, and destroy your best traditions
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
They said, "These two are surely sorcerers: fain would they drive you from your land by their sorceries, and lead away in their paths your chiefest men
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Said they, 'These twain are certainly two magicians, who wish to turn you out of your land by their magic, and to remove your most exemplary doctrine
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 م ث ل · 169 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root م ث ل occurs 169 times across 65 distinct forms.

See the full root page for م ث ل →

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