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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 38:4:9

سَٰحِرٌ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
38 · The letter Saad
Verse
38:4
Word in verse
9
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:38:4:9

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
(is) a magician,
Transliteration
sāḥirun
Root
س ح رs-hh-r
Lemma
ساحِر
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: NOMstate: indefinitegender: Mderivation: ACT_PCPLverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. سَٰحِرٌstem · N · س ح ر

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 38:4 — 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 they marveled that a warner has come to them from among them. The disbelievers said, “This is a lying magician.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And they marvel that a warner from among themselves hath come unto them, and the disbelievers say: This is a wizard, a charlatan
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And they marvel that a warner from among themselves hath come to them; and the Infidels say, "This is a sorcerer, a liar
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And they wonder that a warner has come from amongst themselves, and the misbelievers say, 'This is a magician, a liar
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 3 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form سَٰحِرٌ appears 3 times in the corpus.

Root س ح ر · 63 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root س ح ر occurs 63 times across 33 distinct forms.

See the full root page for س ح ر →

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