Those drawn up in Ranks 37:153Quranic text
أَصْطَفَىٱلْبَنَاتِعَلَىٱلْبَنِينَ
Reference 37:153Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 37:153:1
أَصْطَفَى
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- أَصْطَفَى Quranic text
- Simple
- أَصْطَفَى
- Without tashkeel
- أصطفى
- Normalised (searchable)
- اصطفي
Position
Computed- Verse
- 37:153
- Word in verse
- 1
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:37:153:1
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- Has He chosen
- Transliteration
- aṣṭafā
- Root
- ص ف وsd-f-w
- Lemma
- اصْطَفَى
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 8
Sub-word segments
- أَprefix · INTG
- صْطَفَىstem · V · ص ف و
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 37:153 — 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 →
So He preferred girls over boys(And again of their falsehood): He hath preferred daughters to sonsWould he have preferred daughters to sonsHas he preferred daughters to sonsSame form · 1 occurrence
ComputedThis exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.
Root ص ف و · 17 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ص ف و occurs 17 times across 16 distinct forms.
- ٱصْطَفَيْنَٰهُ2:130:11
- ٱصْطَفَىٰ2:132:9
- ٱصْطَفَىٰهُ2:247:29
- صَفْوَانٍ2:264:21
- ٱصْطَفَىٰٓ3:33:3
- ٱصْطَفَىٰكِ3:42:7
- وَٱصْطَفَىٰكِ3:42:9
- ٱصْطَفَيْتُكَ7:144:4
- أَفَأَصْفَىٰكُمْ17:40:1
- يَصْطَفِى22:75:2
- ٱصْطَفَىٰٓ27:59:8
- ٱصْطَفَيْنَا35:32:5
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