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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 3:59:6

كَمَثَلِ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
3 · The Family of Imraan
Verse
3:59
Word in verse
6
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:3:59:6

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
(is) like (the) likeness
Transliteration
kamathali
Root
م ث لm-th-l
Lemma
مَثَل
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: GENgender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. كَprefix · P
  2. مَثَلِstem · N · م ث ل

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 · 5 editions

These translations render verse 3:59 — 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 Jesus in God’s sight is that of Adam: He created him from dust, then said to him, “Be,” and he was
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Lo! the likeness of Jesus with Allah is as the likeness of Adam. He created him of dust, then He said unto him: Be! and he is
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Verily, Jesus is as Adam in the sight of God. He created him of dust: He then said to him, "Be" - and he was
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Verily the likeness of Jesus with God is as the likeness of Adam. He created him from earth, then He said to him BE, and he was
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain
indeed likeness Isa with Allah as likeness Adam he created from dust then he said for him be he is

Generated from a table of word-by-word decisions, not written as prose. Arabic word order is preserved, so it reads stiffly and is not a substitute for a translation written by a person. Every verse is rendered, but the whole remains under review: words marked as judgement rest on weaker evidence than the rest and are flagged in place. No tafsir, hadith or existing translation was consulted.

Translation · QuranBench (generated) — not a human translationCC BY-SA 4.0How this was produced

Same form · 13 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كَمَثَلِ appears 13 times in the corpus.

Root م ث ل · 169 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root م ث ل occurs 169 times across 65 distinct forms.

See the full root page for م ث ل →

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