Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 36:78:1

وَضَرَبَ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): وَضَرَبَ Quranic text
Simple: وَضَرَبَ
Without tashkeel: وضرب
Normalised (searchable): وضرب

Position

Computed

Surah: 36 · Yaseen
Verse: 36:78
Word in verse: 1
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:36:78:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: And he sets forth
Transliteration: waḍaraba

Root: ض ر بdd-r-b
Lemma: ضَرَبَ
Part of speech: Verb (V)
Features: tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

وَprefix · CONJ
ضَرَبَstem · V · ض ر ب

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

Yaseen 36:78Quranic text

وَضَرَبَ لَنَا مَثَلًا وَنَسِىَ خَلْقَهُۥ قَالَ مَن يُحْىِ ٱلْعِظَٰمَ وَهِىَ رَمِيمٌ

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How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 36:78 — 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 →

And he produces arguments against Us, and he forgets his own creation. He says, “Who will revive the bones when they have decayed?”

Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

And he hath coined for Us a similitude, and hath forgotten the fact of his creation, saying: Who will revive these bones when they have rotted away

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

And he meeteth us with arguments, and forgetteth his creation: "Who," saith he, "shall give life to bones when they are rotten

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

and he strikes out for us a likeness; and forgets his creation; and says, 'Who shall quicken bones when they are rotten

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 4 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَضَرَبَ appears 4 times in the corpus.

Root ض ر ب · 58 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ض ر ب occurs 58 times across 32 distinct forms.

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