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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 22:13:9

وَلَبِئْسَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
22:13
Word in verse
9
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:22:13:9

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
walabi'sa
Lemma
بِئْسَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  2. لَprefix · EMPH
  3. بِئْسَstem · V · ب أ س

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 · 4 occurrences

Computed

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

Root ب أ س · 73 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ب أ س occurs 73 times across 28 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ب أ س

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