لَشَىْءٌ

Uthmani (as written)

لَشَىْءٌ Quranic text

Simple

لَشَىْءٌ

Without tashkeel

لشىء

Normalised (searchable)

لشيء

Surah

38 · The letter Saad

Verse

38:5

Word in verse

7

Token id

quran:tanzil-uthmani:38:5:7

Gloss

(is) certainly a thing

Transliteration

lashayon

Root

ش ي أsh-y-e

Lemma

شَىْء

Part of speech

Noun (N)

Features

case: NOMstate: indefinitegender: M

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.

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 →

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

• لَشَىْءٌ11:72:11
• لَشَىْءٌ38:6:11

The root ش ي أ occurs 519 times across 29 distinct forms.

• شَآءَ2:20:15
• شَىْءٍ2:20:24
• شَىْءٍ2:29:18
• شِئْتُمَا2:35:11
• شَيْـًٔا2:48:8
• شِئْتُمْ2:58:9
• شَآءَ2:70:15
• يَشَآءُ2:90:18
• يَشَآءُ2:105:21
• شَىْءٍ2:106:18
• شَىْءٍ2:109:32
• شَىْءٍ2:113:6

No published investigation cites this word yet. When one does, it appears here — the evidence links back to the argument.