Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 23:47:4

مِثْلِنَا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): مِثْلِنَا Quranic text
Simple: مِثْلِنَا
Without tashkeel: مثلنا
Normalised (searchable): مثلنا

Position

Computed

Surah: 23 · The Believers
Verse: 23:47
Word in verse: 4
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:23:47:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: like ourselves
Transliteration: mith'linā

Root: م ث لm-th-l
Lemma: مِثْل
Part of speech: Noun (N)
Features: case: GENgender: M

Sub-word segments

مِثْلِstem · N · م ث ل
نَاsuffix · PRON

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

The Believers 23:47Quranic text

فَقَالُوٓا۟أَنُؤْمِنُ لِبَشَرَيْنِ مِثْلِنَا وَقَوْمُهُمَا لَنَا عَٰبِدُونَ

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How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 23:47 — 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 we to believe in two mortals like us, and their people are our slaves?”

Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

And they said: Shall we put faith in two mortals like ourselves, and whose folk are servile unto us

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

And they said, "Shall we believe on two men like ourselves, whose people are our slaves

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

And they said, 'Shall we believe two mortals like ourselves, when their people are servants of ours

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 م ث ل · 169 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root م ث ل occurs 169 times across 65 distinct forms.

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