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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 22:13:4

أَقْرَبُ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
أَقْرَبُ Quranic text
Simple
أَقْرَبُ
Without tashkeel
أقرب
Normalised (searchable)
اقرب

Position

Computed
Surah
22 · The Pilgrimage
Verse
22:13
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:22:13:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
(is) closer
Transliteration
aqrabu
Root
ق ر بq-r-b
Lemma
أَقْرَب
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: NOMgender: Mnumber: singularadjective: true

Sub-word segments

  1. أَقْرَبُstem · N · 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 22:13 — 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 →

He invokes one whose harm is closer than his benefit. What a miserable master. What a miserable companion
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
He calleth unto him whose harm is nearer than his benefit; verily an evil patron and verily an evil friend
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
He calleth on him who would sooner hurt than profit him. Surely, bad the lord, and, surely, bad the vassal
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
He calls on him whose harm is nigher than his profit,- a bad lord and a bad comrade
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 9 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form أَقْرَبُ appears 9 times 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.

See the full root page for ق ر ب →

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