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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 20:66:12

تَسْعَىٰ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
تَسْعَىٰ Quranic text
Simple
تَسْعَىٰ
Without tashkeel
تسعى
Normalised (searchable)
تسعي

Position

Computed
Surah
20 · Taa-Haa
Verse
20:66
Word in verse
12
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:20:66:12

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
(were) moving.
Transliteration
tasʿā
Root
س ع يs-aa-y
Lemma
سَعَى
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: IMPFmood: INDperson: 3gender: Fnumber: singularverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. تَسْعَىٰstem · V · س ع 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 20:66 — 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 →

He said, “You throw.” And suddenly, their ropes and sticks appeared to him, because of their magic, to be crawling swiftly
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
He said: Nay, do ye throw! Then lo! their cords and their staves, by their magic, appeared to him as though they ran
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
He said, "Yes, cast ye down first." And lo! by their enchantment their cords and rods seemed to him as if they ran
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
He said, 'Nay, throw ye!' and lo! their ropes and their staves appeared to move along
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 3 occurrences

Computed

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

Root س ع ي · 30 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root س ع ي occurs 30 times across 19 distinct forms.

See the full root page for س ع ي →

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