The Light 24:3Quranic text
ٱلزَّانِىلَايَنكِحُإِلَّازَانِيَةًأَوْمُشْرِكَةًوَٱلزَّانِيَةُلَايَنكِحُهَآإِلَّازَانٍأَوْمُشْرِكٌوَحُرِّمَذَٰلِكَعَلَىٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ
Reference 24:3Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 24:3:1
ٱلزَّانِى
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- ٱلزَّانِى Quranic text
- Simple
- الزَّانِى
- Without tashkeel
- ٱلزانى
- Normalised (searchable)
- الزاني
Position
Computed- Surah
- 24 · The Light
- Verse
- 24:3
- Word in verse
- 1
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:24:3:1
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- The fornicator
- Transliteration
- al-zānī
- Root
- ز ن يz-n-y
- Lemma
- زان
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: NOMgender: Mderivation: ACT_PCPLverb_form: 1
Sub-word segments
- ٱلprefix · DET
- زَّانِىstem · N · ز ن ي
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 24:3 — 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 →
The adulterer shall marry none but an adulteress or an idolatress; and the adulteress shall marry none but an adulterer or an idolater. That has been prohibited for the believersThe adulterer shall not marry save an adulteress or an idolatress, and the adulteress none shall marry save an adulterer or an idolater. All that is forbidden unto believersThe whoremonger shall not marry other than a whore or an idolatress; and the whore shall not marry other than a whoremonger or an idolater. Such alliances are forbidden to the faithfulAnd the whoremonger shall marry none but a whore or an idolatress; and the whore shall none marry but an adulterer or an idolater; God has prohibited this to the believersSame form · 1 occurrence
ComputedThis exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.
Root ز ن ي · 9 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ز ن ي occurs 9 times across 9 distinct forms.
- ٱلزِّنَىٰٓ17:32:3
- ٱلزَّانِيَةُ24:2:1
- وَٱلزَّانِى24:2:2
- زَانِيَةً24:3:5
- وَٱلزَّانِيَةُ24:3:8
- زَانٍ24:3:12
- يَزْنُونَ25:68:17
- يَزْنِينَ60:12:16
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