The Spider 29:41Quranic text
مَثَلُٱلَّذِينَٱتَّخَذُوا۟مِندُونِٱللَّهِأَوْلِيَآءَكَمَثَلِٱلْعَنكَبُوتِٱتَّخَذَتْبَيْتًاوَإِنَّأَوْهَنَٱلْبُيُوتِلَبَيْتُٱلْعَنكَبُوتِلَوْكَانُوا۟يَعْلَمُونَ
Reference 29:41Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 29:41:7
أَوْلِيَآءَ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- أَوْلِيَآءَ Quranic text
- Simple
- أَوْلِيَآءَ
- Without tashkeel
- أولياء
- Normalised (searchable)
- اولياء
Position
Computed- Surah
- 29 · The Spider
- Verse
- 29:41
- Word in verse
- 7
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:29:41:7
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- protectors
- Transliteration
- awliyāa
- Root
- و ل يw-l-y
- Lemma
- وَلِيّ
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: ACCgender: Mnumber: plural
Sub-word segments
- أَوْلِيَآءَstem · N · و ل ي
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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 29:41 — 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 →
The likeness of those who take to themselves protectors other than God is that of the spider. It builds a house. But the most fragile of houses is the spider’s house. If they only knewThe likeness of those who choose other patrons than Allah is as the likeness of the spider when she taketh unto herself a house, and lo! the frailest of all houses is the spider's house, if they but knewThe likeness for those who take to themselves guardians instead of God is the likeness of the SPIDER who buildeth her a house: But verily, frailest of all houses surely is the house of the spider. Did they but know thisThe likeness of those who take, beside God, patrons is as the likeness of a spider, that takes to himself a house; and, verily, the weakest of houses is a spider's house, if they did but knowSame form · 27 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form أَوْلِيَآءَ appears 27 times in the corpus.
- أَوْلِيَآءَ3:28:5
- أَوْلِيَآءَ4:76:14
- أَوْلِيَآءَ4:89:11
- أَوْلِيَآءَ4:139:4
- أَوْلِيَآءَ4:144:7
- أَوْلِيَآءَ5:51:8
- أَوْلِيَآءَ5:57:18
- أَوْلِيَآءَ5:81:11
- أَوْلِيَآءَ7:3:11
- أَوْلِيَآءَ7:27:27
- أَوْلِيَآءَ7:30:10
- أَوْلِيَآءَ9:23:8
Root و ل ي · 232 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root و ل ي occurs 232 times across 93 distinct forms.
- تَوَلَّيْتُم2:64:2
- تَوَلَّيْتُمْ2:83:24
- وَلِىٍّ2:107:15
- تُوَلُّوا۟2:115:5
- وَلِىٍّ2:120:29
- تَوَلَّوْا۟2:137:10
- وَلَّىٰهُمْ2:142:6
- فَلَنُوَلِّيَنَّكَ2:144:7
- فَوَلِّ2:144:10
- فَوَلُّوا۟2:144:18
- مُوَلِّيهَا2:148:4
- فَوَلِّ2:149:4
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