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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 42:17:11

قَرِيبٌ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
42 · Consultation
Verse
42:17
Word in verse
11
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:42:17:11

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
(is) near.
Transliteration
qarībun
Root
ق ر بq-r-b
Lemma
قَرِيب
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: NOMstate: indefinitegender: Mnumber: singularadjective: true

Sub-word segments

  1. قَرِيبٌstem · N · ق ر ب

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 42:17 — 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 →

It is God who revealed the Book with the truth, and the Balance. And what will make you realize that perhaps the Hour is near
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Allah it is Who hath revealed the Scripture with truth, and the Balance. How canst thou know? It may be that the Hour is nigh
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
It is God who hath sent down the Book with truth, and the Balance: but who shall inform thee whether haply "the Hour" be nigh
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
God it is who has sent down the Book with truth, and the balance; and what shall make thee know whether haply the Hour be nigh
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 8 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form قَرِيبٌ appears 8 times in the corpus.

Root ق ر ب · 96 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ق ر ب occurs 96 times across 37 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ق ر ب →

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