The Prophets 21:16Quranic text
وَمَاخَلَقْنَاٱلسَّمَآءَوَٱلْأَرْضَوَمَابَيْنَهُمَالَٰعِبِينَ
Reference 21:16Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:16:7
لَٰعِبِينَ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- لَٰعِبِينَ Quranic text
- Simple
- لَٰعِبِينَ
- Without tashkeel
- لعبين
- Normalised (searchable)
- لعبين
Position
Computed- Surah
- 21 · The Prophets
- Verse
- 21:16
- Word in verse
- 7
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:16:7
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- (for) playing.
- Transliteration
- lāʿibīna
- Root
- ل ع بl-aa-b
- Lemma
- لاعِب
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: ACCgender: Mnumber: pluralderivation: ACT_PCPLverb_form: 1
Sub-word segments
- لَٰعِبِينَstem · N · ل ع ب
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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 21:16 — 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 →
We did not create the sky and the earth and what is between them for amusementWe created not the heaven and the earth and all that is between them in playWe created not the heaven and the earth, and what is between them, for sportWe did not create the heaven and the earth and what is between the two in playSame form · 2 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form لَٰعِبِينَ appears 2 times in the corpus.
Root ل ع ب · 20 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ل ع ب occurs 20 times across 10 distinct forms.
- وَلَعِبًا5:57:10
- وَلَعِبًا5:58:7
- لَعِبٌ6:32:5
- لَعِبًا6:70:5
- يَلْعَبُونَ6:91:44
- وَلَعِبًا7:51:5
- يَلْعَبُونَ7:98:9
- وَنَلْعَبُ9:65:7
- وَيَلْعَبْ12:12:5
- يَلْعَبُونَ21:2:11
- ٱللَّٰعِبِينَ21:55:7
- وَلَعِبٌ29:64:7
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