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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 38:5:3

إِلَٰهًا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
إِلَٰهًا Quranic text
Simple
إِلَٰهًا
Without tashkeel
إلها
Normalised (searchable)
الها

Position

Computed
Verse
38:5
Word in verse
3
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:38:5:3

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
ilāhan
Lemma
إِلٰه
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCstate: indefinitegender: Mnumber: singular

Sub-word segments

  1. إِلَٰهًاstem · N · أ ل ه

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 38:5 — 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 →

“Did he turn all the gods into one God? This is something strange.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Maketh he the gods One Allah? Lo! that is an astounding thing
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Maketh he the gods to be but one god? A strange thing forsooth is this
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
What! does he make the gods to be one God? verily, this is a wondrous thing
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 16 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form إِلَٰهًا appears 16 times in the corpus.

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Root أ ل ه · 2963 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root أ ل ه occurs 2963 times across 49 distinct forms.

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