Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:109:9

أَقَرِيبٌ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): أَقَرِيبٌ Quranic text
Simple: أَقَرِيبٌ
Without tashkeel: أقريب
Normalised (searchable): اقريب

Position

Computed

Surah: 21 · The Prophets
Verse: 21:109
Word in verse: 9
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:109:9

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: whether is near
Transliteration: aqarībun

Root: ق ر بq-r-b
Lemma: قَرِيب
Part of speech: Noun (N)
Features: case: NOMstate: indefinitegender: Mnumber: singular

Sub-word segments

أَprefix · INTG
قَرِيبٌstem · N · ق ر ب

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

The Prophets 21:109Quranic text

فَإِن تَوَلَّوْا۟فَقُلْ ءَاذَنتُكُمْ عَلَىٰ سَوَآءٍ وَإِنْ أَدْرِىٓ أَقَرِيبٌ أَم بَعِيدٌ مَّا تُوعَدُونَ

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How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 21:109 — 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 →

But if they turn away, say, “I have informed you sufficiently. Although I do not know whether what you are promised is near or far.”

Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

But if they are averse, then say: I have warned you all alike, although I know not whether nigh or far is that which ye are promised

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

But if they turn their backs, then SAY: I have warned you all alike; but I know not whether that with which ye are threatened be nigh or distant

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

But if they turn their backs say, 'I have proclaimed (war) against all alike, but I know not if what ye are threatened with be near or far

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 2 occurrences

Computed

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

أَقَرِيبٌ72:25:4

Root ق ر ب · 96 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ق ر ب occurs 96 times across 37 distinct forms.

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