Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 43:20:6

عَبَدْنَٰهُم

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): عَبَدْنَٰهُم Quranic text
Simple: عَبَدْنَٰهُم
Without tashkeel: عبدنهم
Normalised (searchable): عبدنهم

Position

Computed

Surah: 43 · Ornaments of gold
Verse: 43:20
Word in verse: 6
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:43:20:6

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: we would have worshipped them."
Transliteration: ʿabadnāhum

Root: ع ب دaa-b-d
Lemma: عَبَدَ
Part of speech: Verb (V)
Features: tense: PERFperson: 1number: pluralverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

عَبَدْstem · V · ع ب د
نَٰsuffix · PRON
هُمsuffix · PRON

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

Ornaments of gold 43:20Quranic text

وَقَالُوا۟لَوْ شَآءَ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنُ مَا عَبَدْنَٰهُم مَّا لَهُم بِذَٰلِكَ مِنْ عِلْمٍ إِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَخْرُصُونَ

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How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 43:20 — 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 they say, “Had the Most Gracious willed, we would not have worshiped them.” But they have no knowledge of that; they are merely guessing

Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

And they say: If the Beneficent One had (so) willed, we should not have worshipped them. They have no knowledge whatsoever of that. They do but guess

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

And they say: "Had the God of Mercy so willed it we should never have worshipped them." No knowledge have they in this: they only lie

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

and they say, 'Had the Merciful pleased we should never have worshipped them.' They have no knowledge of that, they only conjecture

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 ع ب د · 275 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ع ب د occurs 275 times across 109 distinct forms.

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