Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 28:49:8

أَهْدَىٰ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): أَهْدَىٰ Quranic text
Simple: أَهْدَىٰ
Without tashkeel: أهدى
Normalised (searchable): اهدي

Position

Computed

Surah: 28 · The Stories
Verse: 28:49
Word in verse: 8
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:28:49:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: (is) a better guide
Transliteration: ahdā

Root: ه د يh-d-y
Lemma: أَهْدَى
Part of speech: Noun (N)
Features: case: NOMgender: Mnumber: singular

Sub-word segments

أَهْدَىٰstem · N · ه د ي

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

The Stories 28:49Quranic text

قُلْ فَأْتُوا۟بِكِتَٰبٍ مِّنْ عِندِ ٱللَّهِ هُوَ أَهْدَىٰ مِنْهُمَآ أَتَّبِعْهُ إِن كُنتُمْ صَٰدِقِينَ

← هُوَ 28:49:7 مِنْهُمَآ 28:49:9 →

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 28:49 — 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 →

Say, “Then bring a scripture from God, more conductive to guidance than both, and I will follow it, if you are truthful.”

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

Say (unto them, O Muhammad): Then bring a scripture from the presence of Allah that giveth clearer guidance than these two (that) I may follow it, if ye are truthful

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

SAY: Bring then a Book from before God which shall be a better guide than these, that I may follow it; if ye speak the truth

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

Say, 'Bring, then, a book from God which shall be a better guide than both, and I will follow it, if ye do tell the truth

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 5 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form أَهْدَىٰ appears 5 times in the corpus.

Root ه د ي · 316 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ه د ي occurs 316 times across 116 distinct forms.

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