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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:97:1

وَٱقْتَرَبَ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
وَٱقْتَرَبَ Quranic text
Simple
وَاقْتَرَبَ
Without tashkeel
وٱقترب
Normalised (searchable)
واقترب

Position

Computed
Surah
21 · The Prophets
Verse
21:97
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:97:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
And has approached
Transliteration
wa-iq'taraba
Root
ق ر بq-r-b
Lemma
اقْتَرَبَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 8

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  2. ٱقْتَرَبَstem · V · ق ر 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 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 21:97 — 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 →

The promise of truth has drawn near. The eyes of those who disbelieved will stare in horror: “Woe to us. We were oblivious to this. In fact, we were wrongdoers.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And the True Promise draweth nigh; then behold them, staring wide (in terror), the eyes of those who disbelieve! (They say): Alas for us! We (lived) in forgetfulness of this. Ah, but we were wrong-doers
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And this sure promise shall draw on. And lo! the eyes of the infidels shall stare amazedly; and they shall say, "Oh, our misery! of this were we careless! yea, we were impious persons
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And the true promise draws nigh, and lo! they are staring - the eyes of those who misbelieve! O, woe is us! we were heedless of this, nay, we were wrong-doers
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 1 occurrence

Computed

This exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.

Root ق ر ب · 96 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ق ر ب occurs 96 times across 37 distinct forms.

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