The Prophets 21:55Quranic text
قَالُوٓا۟أَجِئْتَنَابِٱلْحَقِّأَمْأَنتَمِنَٱللَّٰعِبِينَ
Reference 21:55Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:55:7
ٱللَّٰعِبِينَ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- ٱللَّٰعِبِينَ Quranic text
- Simple
- اللَّٰعِبِينَ
- Without tashkeel
- ٱللعبين
- Normalised (searchable)
- اللعبين
Position
Computed- Surah
- 21 · The Prophets
- Verse
- 21:55
- Word in verse
- 7
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:55:7
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- those who play?"
- Transliteration
- l-lāʿibīna
- Root
- ل ع بl-aa-b
- Lemma
- لاعِب
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: GENgender: Mnumber: pluralderivation: ACT_PCPLverb_form: 1
Sub-word segments
- ٱلprefix · DET
- لَّٰعِبِينَstem · 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 21:55 — 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 →
They said, “Are you telling us the truth, or are you just playing?”They said: Bringest thou unto us the truth, or art thou some jesterThey said, "Hast thou come unto us in earnest? or art thou of those who jestThey said, 'Dost thou come to us with the truth, or art thou but of those who playSame form · 1 occurrence
ComputedThis exact form appears only here — it is a hapax 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
- لَٰعِبِينَ21:16:7
- وَلَعِبٌ29:64:7
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