Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 28:34:4

أَفْصَحُ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): أَفْصَحُ Quranic text
Simple: أَفْصَحُ
Without tashkeel: أفصح
Normalised (searchable): افصح

Position

Computed

Surah: 28 · The Stories
Verse: 28:34
Word in verse: 4
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:28:34:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: (is) more eloquent
Transliteration: afṣaḥu

Root: ف ص حf-sd-hh
Lemma: أَفْصَح
Part of speech: Noun (N)
Features: case: NOMgender: Mnumber: singular

Sub-word segments

أَفْصَحُstem · N · ف ص ح

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

The Stories 28:34Quranic text

وَأَخِى هَٰرُونُ هُوَ أَفْصَحُ مِنِّى لِسَانًا فَأَرْسِلْهُ مَعِىَ رِدْءًا يُصَدِّقُنِىٓ إِنِّىٓ أَخَافُ أَن يُكَذِّبُونِ

← هُوَ 28:34:3 مِنِّى 28:34:5 →

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 28:34 — 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 →

And my brother Aaron, he is more eloquent than me, so send him with me, to help me, and to confirm my words, for I fear they will reject me.”

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

My brother Aaron is more eloquent than me in speech. Therefor send him with me as a helper to confirm me. Lo! I fear that they will give the lie to me

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

My brother Aaron is clearer of speech than I. Send him, therefore, with me as a help, and to make good my cause, for I fear lest they treat me as an impostor

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

and my brother Aaron, he is more eloquent of tongue than I; send him then with me as a support, to verify me; verily, I fear that they will call me liar

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 ف ص ح · 1 occurrence

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ف ص ح occurs 1 time across 1 distinct form.

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