Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:18:13

تَصِفُونَ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): تَصِفُونَ Quranic text
Simple: تَصِفُونَ
Without tashkeel: تصفون
Normalised (searchable): تصفون

Position

Computed

Surah: 21 · The Prophets
Verse: 21:18
Word in verse: 13
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:18:13

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: you ascribe.
Transliteration: taṣifūna

Root: و ص فw-sd-f
Lemma: يَصِفُ
Part of speech: Verb (V)
Features: tense: IMPFmood: INDperson: 2gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

تَصِفُstem · V · و ص ف
ونَsuffix · PRON

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

The Prophets 21:18Quranic text

بَلْ نَقْذِفُ بِٱلْحَقِّ عَلَى ٱلْبَٰطِلِ فَيَدْمَغُهُۥ فَإِذَا هُوَ زَاهِقٌ وَلَكُمُ ٱلْوَيْلُ مِمَّا تَصِفُونَ

← مِمَّا 21:18:12 وَلَهُۥ 21:19:1 →

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 21:18 — 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 →

In fact, We hurl the truth against falsehood, and it crushes it, so it vanishes. Woe unto you, for what you describe

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

Nay, but We hurl the true against the false, and it doth break its head and lo! it vanisheth. And yours will be woe for that which ye ascribe (unto Him)

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

Nay, we will hurl the truth at falsehood, and it shall smite it, and lo! it shall vanish. But woe be to you for what ye utter of God

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

Nay, we hurl the truth against falsehood and it crashes into it, and lo! it vanishes, but woe to you for what ye attribute (to God)

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 4 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form تَصِفُونَ appears 4 times in the corpus.

Root و ص ف · 14 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root و ص ف occurs 14 times across 5 distinct forms.

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