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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:17:4

نَّتَّخِذَ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
نَّتَّخِذَ Quranic text
Simple
نَّتَّخِذَ
Without tashkeel
نتخذ
Normalised (searchable)
نتخذ

Position

Computed
Verse
21:17
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:17:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
We take
Transliteration
nattakhidha
Lemma
اتَّخَذَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: IMPFmood: SUBJperson: 1number: pluralverb_form: 8

Sub-word segments

  1. نَّتَّخِذَstem · V · أ خ ذ

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 21:17 — 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 →

If We wanted amusement, We could have found it within Us, were We to do so
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
If We had wished to find a pastime, We could have found it in Our presence - if We ever did
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Had it been our wish to find a pastime, we had surely found it in ourselves; - if to do so had been our will
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Had we wished to take to a sport, we would have taken to one from before ourselves; had we been bent on doing so
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 2 occurrences

Computed

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

Root أ خ ذ · 273 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root أ خ ذ occurs 273 times across 146 distinct forms.

See the full root page for أ خ ذ

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