Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 27:20:12

ٱلْغَآئِبِينَ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): ٱلْغَآئِبِينَ Quranic text
Simple: الْغَآئِبِينَ
Without tashkeel: ٱلغائبين
Normalised (searchable): الغائبين

Position

Computed

Surah: 27 · The Ant
Verse: 27:20
Word in verse: 12
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:27:20:12

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: the absent?
Transliteration: l-ghāibīna

Root: غ ي بgh-y-b
Lemma: غائِب
Part of speech: Noun (N)
Features: case: GENgender: Mnumber: pluralderivation: ACT_PCPLverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

ٱلْprefix · DET
غَآئِبِينَstem · N · غ ي ب

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

The Ant 27:20Quranic text

وَتَفَقَّدَ ٱلطَّيْرَ فَقَالَ مَا لِىَ لَآ أَرَى ٱلْهُدْهُدَ أَمْ كَانَ مِنَ ٱلْغَآئِبِينَ

← مِنَ 27:20:11 لَأُعَذِّبَنَّهُۥ 27:21:1 →

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 27:20 — 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 →

Then he inspected the birds, and said, “Why do I not see the hoopoe? Or is he among the absentees

Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

And he sought among the birds and said: How is it that I see not the hoopoe, or is he among the absent

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

And he reviewed the birds, and said, "How is it that I see not the lapwing? Is it one of the absent

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

And he reviewed the birds, and said, 'How is it I see not the hoopoe? is he then amongst the absent

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 1 occurrence

Computed

This exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.

Root غ ي ب · 60 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root غ ي ب occurs 60 times across 17 distinct forms.

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