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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 3:40:13

كَذَٰلِكَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
3:40
Word in verse
13
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:3:40:13

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. كَprefix · P
  2. ذَٰstem · DEM
  3. لِsuffix · DIST
  4. 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 3:40 — 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 →

He said, “My Lord, how will I have a son, when old age has overtaken me, and my wife is barren?” He said, “Even so, God does whatever He wills.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
He said: My Lord! How can I have a son when age hath overtaken me already and my wife is barren? (The angel) answered: So (it will be). Allah doeth what He will
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
He said, "O my Lord! how shall I have a son, now that old age hath come upon me, and my wife is barren?" He said, "Thus will God do His pleasure
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
He said, 'My Lord, how can there be to me a boy when old age has reached me, and my wife is barren?' Said he, 'Thus God does what He pleaseth
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 83 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كَذَٰلِكَ appears 83 times in the corpus.

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