The Women 4:21Quranic text
وَكَيْفَتَأْخُذُونَهُۥوَقَدْأَفْضَىٰبَعْضُكُمْإِلَىٰبَعْضٍوَأَخَذْنَمِنكُممِّيثَٰقًاغَلِيظًا
Reference 4:21Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 4:21:1
وَكَيْفَ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- وَكَيْفَ Quranic text
- Simple
- وَكَيْفَ
- Without tashkeel
- وكيف
- Normalised (searchable)
- وكيف
Position
Computed- Surah
- 4 · The Women
- Verse
- 4:21
- Word in verse
- 1
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:4:21:1
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- And how
- Transliteration
- wakayfa
- Root
- ك ي فk-y-f
- Lemma
- كَيْف
- Part of speech
- Interrogative (INTG)
- Features
- —
Sub-word segments
- وَprefix · CIRC
- كَيْفَstem · INTG · ك ي ف
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 4:21 — 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 how can you take it back, when you have been intimate with one another, and they have received from you a solid commitmentHow can ye take it (back) after one of you hath gone in unto the other, and they have taken a strong pledge from youHow, moreover, could ye take it, when one of you hath gone in unto the other, and they have received from you a strict bond of unionHow care ye take it when one of you has gone in unto the other, and they have taken from you a rigid compactSame form · 5 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form وَكَيْفَ appears 5 times in the corpus.
Root ك ي ف · 83 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ك ي ف occurs 83 times across 3 distinct forms.
- كَيْفَ2:28:1
- كَيْفَ2:259:52
- كَيْفَ2:260:6
- كَيْفَ3:6:6
- فَكَيْفَ3:25:1
- كَيْفَ3:86:1
- وَكَيْفَ3:101:1
- كَيْفَ3:137:10
- فَكَيْفَ4:41:1
- كَيْفَ4:50:2
- فَكَيْفَ4:62:1
- كَيْفَ5:31:8
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