The Criterion 25:9Quranic text
ٱنظُرْكَيْفَضَرَبُوا۟لَكَٱلْأَمْثَٰلَفَضَلُّوا۟فَلَايَسْتَطِيعُونَسَبِيلًا
Reference 25:9Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 25:9:2
كَيْفَ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- كَيْفَ Quranic text
- Simple
- كَيْفَ
- Without tashkeel
- كيف
- Normalised (searchable)
- كيف
Position
Computed- Surah
- 25 · The Criterion
- Verse
- 25:9
- Word in verse
- 2
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:25:9:2
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- how
- Transliteration
- kayfa
- Root
- ك ي فk-y-f
- Lemma
- كَيْف
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- —
Sub-word segments
- كَيْفَstem · N · ك ي ف
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 25:9 — 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 →
Look how they invent examples for you. They have gone astray, and cannot find a waySee how they coin similitudes for thee, so that they are all astray and cannot find a roadSee what likenesses they strike out for thee! But they err, and cannot find their waySee how they strike out for thee parables, and err, and cannot find a waySame form · 62 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form كَيْفَ appears 62 times in the corpus.
- كَيْفَ2:28:1
- كَيْفَ2:259:52
- كَيْفَ2:260:6
- كَيْفَ3:6:6
- كَيْفَ3:86:1
- كَيْفَ3:137:10
- كَيْفَ4:50:2
- كَيْفَ5:31:8
- كَيْفَ5:64:15
- كَيْفَ5:75:18
- كَيْفَ6:11:7
- كَيْفَ6:24:2
Root ك ي ف · 83 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ك ي ف occurs 83 times across 3 distinct forms.
- كَيْفَ2:28:1
- كَيْفَ2:259:52
- كَيْفَ2:260:6
- كَيْفَ3:6:6
- فَكَيْفَ3:25:1
- كَيْفَ3:86:1
- وَكَيْفَ3:101:1
- كَيْفَ3:137:10
- وَكَيْفَ4:21:1
- فَكَيْفَ4:41:1
- كَيْفَ4:50:2
- فَكَيْفَ4:62:1
Cited by 0 investigations
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