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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 42:17:4

ٱلْكِتَٰبَ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
ٱلْكِتَٰبَ Quranic text
Simple
الْكِتَٰبَ
Without tashkeel
ٱلكتب
Normalised (searchable)
الكتب

Position

Computed
Verse
42:17
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:42:17:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
l-kitāba
Lemma
كِتاب
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCgender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. ٱلْprefix · DET
  2. كِتَٰبَstem · N · ك ت 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 · 78 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form ٱلْكِتَٰبَ appears 78 times in the corpus.

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Root ك ت ب · 319 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ك ت ب occurs 319 times across 61 distinct forms.

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