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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 4:139:8

أَيَبْتَغُونَ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
أَيَبْتَغُونَ Quranic text
Simple
أَيَبْتَغُونَ
Without tashkeel
أيبتغون
Normalised (searchable)
ايبتغون

Position

Computed
Verse
4:139
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:4:139:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
ayabtaghūna
Lemma
ابْتَغَى
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: IMPFmood: INDperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 8

Sub-word segments

  1. أَprefix · INTG
  2. يَبْتَغُstem · V · ب غ ي
  3. ونَsuffix · PRON

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 4:139 — 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 →

Those who ally themselves with the disbelievers instead of the believers. Do they seek glory in them? All glory belongs to God
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Those who chose disbelievers for their friends instead of believers! Do they look for power at their hands? Lo! all power appertaineth to Allah
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Those who take the unbelievers for friends besides the faithful - do they seek honour at their hands? Verily, all honour belongeth unto God
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Those who take the misbelievers for their patrons rather than believers,- do they crave honour from them? Verily, honour is altogether God's
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 1 occurrence

Computed

This exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.

Root ب غ ي · 96 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ب غ ي occurs 96 times across 55 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ب غ ي

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Community

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