The Believers 23:81Quranic text
بَلْقَالُوا۟مِثْلَمَاقَالَٱلْأَوَّلُونَ
Reference 23:81Quranic 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
- 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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese 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 saidNay, but they say the like of that which said the men of oldBut they say, as said those of oldNay, but they said like that which those of yore did saySame form · 10 occurrences
ComputedThis 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.
- مَثَلُهُمْ2:17:1
- كَمَثَلِ2:17:2
- مِّثْلِهِۦ2:23:12
- مَثَلًا2:26:7
- مَثَلًا2:26:28
- مِثْلِهَآ2:106:11
- مِثْلَ2:113:21
- مِّثْلَ2:118:16
- بِمِثْلِ2:137:3
- وَمَثَلُ2:171:1
- كَمَثَلِ2:171:4
- بِمِثْلِ2:194:12
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