The Criterion 25:9Quranic text
ٱنظُرْكَيْفَضَرَبُوا۟لَكَٱلْأَمْثَٰلَفَضَلُّوا۟فَلَايَسْتَطِيعُونَسَبِيلًا
Reference 25:9Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 25:9:5
ٱلْأَمْثَٰلَ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- ٱلْأَمْثَٰلَ Quranic text
- Simple
- الْأَمْثَٰلَ
- Without tashkeel
- ٱلأمثل
- Normalised (searchable)
- الامثل
Position
Computed- Surah
- 25 · The Criterion
- Verse
- 25:9
- Word in verse
- 5
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:25:9:5
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- the similitudes,
- Transliteration
- l-amthāla
- Root
- م ث لm-th-l
- Lemma
- مَثَل
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: ACCgender: Mnumber: plural
Sub-word segments
- ٱلْprefix · DET
- أَمْثَٰلَstem · 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 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 · 3 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form ٱلْأَمْثَٰلَ appears 3 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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