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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:5:12

كَمَآ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
21 · The Prophets
Verse
21:5
Word in verse
12
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:5:12

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
like what
Transliteration
kamā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
ما
Part of speech
SUB
Features
—

Sub-word segments

  1. كَprefix · P
  2. مَآstem · SUB

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 21:5 — 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 →

And they said, “A jumble of dreams,” and, “He made it up,” and, “He is a poet,” “let him bring us a sign, like those sent to the ancients.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Nay, say they, (these are but) muddled dreams; nay, he hath but invented it; nay, he is but a poet. Let him bring us a portent even as those of old (who were Allah's messengers) were sent (with portents)
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Nay," say they, "it is the medley of dreams: nay, he hath forged it: nay, he is a poet: let him come to us with a sign as the prophets of old were sent
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Nay!' they say, 'a jumble of dreams; nay! he has forged it; nay! he is a poet; but let him bring us a sign as those of yore were sent
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 15 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كَمَآ appears 15 times in the corpus.

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Community

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