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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 23:115:4

عَبَثًا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
23:115
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:23:115:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
ʿabathan
Lemma
عَبَث
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCstate: indefinitegender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. عَبَثًاstem · N · ع ب ث

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 23:115 — 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 →

Did you think that We created you in vain, and that to Us you will not be returned?”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Deemed ye then that We had created you for naught, and that ye would not be returned unto Us
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
What! Did ye then think that we had created you for pastime, and that ye should not be brought back again to us
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Did ye then reckon that we created you for sport, and that to us ye would not return
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 ع ب ث · 2 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ع ب ث occurs 2 times across 2 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ع ب ث

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