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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 23:96:9

يَصِفُونَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
23 · The Believers
Verse
23:96
Word in verse
9
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:23:96:9

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
they attribute.
Transliteration
yaṣifūna
Root
و ص فw-sd-f
Lemma
يَصِفُ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: IMPFmood: INDperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. يَصِفُstem · V · و ص ف
  2. ونَsuffix · PRON

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 23:96 — 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 →

Repel evil by what is better. We are aware of what they describe
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Repel evil with that which is better. We are Best Aware of that which they allege
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Turn aside evil with that which is better: we best know what they utter against thee
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Repel evil by what is better. We know best what they attribute (to thee)
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 7 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form يَصِفُونَ appears 7 times in the corpus.

Root و ص ف · 14 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root و ص ف occurs 14 times across 5 distinct forms.

See the full root page for و ص ف →

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