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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 23:81:3

مِثْلَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
23 · The Believers
Verse
23:81
Word in verse
3
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:23:81:3

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
(the) like
Transliteration
mith'la
Root
م ث لm-th-l
Lemma
مِثْل
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCgender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. مِثْلَstem · N · م ث ل

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 · 5 editions

These translations render verse 23:81 — 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 →

But they say the like of what the ancients said
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Nay, but they say the like of that which said the men of old
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
But they say, as said those of old
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Nay, but they said like that which those of yore did say
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain
rather they said like what he said the firsts

Generated from a table of word-by-word decisions, not written as prose. Arabic word order is preserved, so it reads stiffly and is not a substitute for a translation written by a person. Every verse is rendered, but the whole remains under review: words marked as judgement rest on weaker evidence than the rest and are flagged in place. No tafsir, hadith or existing translation was consulted.

Translation · QuranBench (generated) — not a human translationCC BY-SA 4.0How this was produced

Same form · 10 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form مِثْلَ appears 10 times 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.

See the full root page for م ث ل →

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