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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 3:86:1

كَيْفَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
3:86
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:3:86:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
How
Transliteration
kayfa
Lemma
كَيْف
Part of speech
Interrogative (INTG)
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. كَيْفَstem · INTG · ك ي ف

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 3:86 — 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 →

How will God guide a people who disbelieved after having believed, and had witnessed that the Messenger is true, and the clear proofs had come to them? God does not guide the unjust people
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
How shall Allah guide a people who disbelieved after their belief and (after) they bore witness that the messenger is true and after clear proofs (of Allah's Sovereignty) had come unto them. And Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
How shall God guide a people who, after they had believed and bore witness that the apostle was true, and after that clear proofs of his mission had reached them, disbelieved? God guideth not the people who transgress
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
How shall God guide people who have disbelieved after believing and bearing witness that the Apostle is true, and after there come to them manifest signs? God guides the unjust folk
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 62 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كَيْفَ appears 62 times in the corpus.

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Root ك ي ف · 83 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ك ي ف occurs 83 times across 3 distinct forms.

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