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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 27:34:12

وَكَذَٰلِكَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
27 · The Ant
Verse
27:34
Word in verse
12
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:27:34:12

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
And thus
Transliteration
wakadhālika
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
ذا
Part of speech
Demonstrative (DEM)
Features
gender: Mnumber: singular

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  2. كَprefix · P
  3. ذَٰstem · DEM
  4. لِsuffix · DIST
  5. كَsuffix · ADDR

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 27:34 — 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 →

She said, “When kings enter a city, they devastate it, and subjugate its dignified people. Thus they always do
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
She said: Lo! kings, when they enter a township, ruin it and make the honour of its people shame. Thus will they do
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
She said, "Kings when they enter a city spoil it, and abase the mightiest of its people: and in like manner will these also do
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
She said, 'Verily, kings when they enter a city despoil it, and make the mighty ones of its people the meanest; thus it is they do
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 38 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَكَذَٰلِكَ appears 38 times in the corpus.

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