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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 29:4:8

سَآءَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
29:4
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:29:4:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
Evil is
Transliteration
sāa
Lemma
ساءَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. سَآءَstem · V · س و أ

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 29:4 — 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 →

Or do those who commit sins think they can fool Us? Terrible is their opinion
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Or do those who do ill-deeds imagine that they can outstrip Us? Evil (for them) is that which they decide
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Think they who work evil that they shall escape Us? Ill do they judge
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Do those who do evil reckon that they can outstrip us? evil is it that they judge
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 11 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form سَآءَ appears 11 times in the corpus.

Root س و أ · 167 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root س و أ occurs 167 times across 59 distinct forms.

See the full root page for س و أ

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