كِتَٰبًا — Quran 43:21:3 · root ك ت ب

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): كِتَٰبًا Quranic text
Simple: كِتَٰبًا
Without tashkeel: كتبا
Normalised (searchable): كتبا

Position

Computed

Surah: 43 · Ornaments of gold
Verse: 43:21
Word in verse: 3
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:43:21:3

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: a book
Transliteration: kitāban

Root: ك ت بk-t-b
Lemma: كِتاب
Part of speech: Noun (N)
Features: case: ACCstate: indefinitegender: M

Sub-word segments

كِتَٰبًاstem · 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

Ornaments of gold 43:21Quranic text

أَمْ ءَاتَيْنَٰهُمْ كِتَٰبًا مِّن قَبْلِهِۦ فَهُم بِهِۦ مُسْتَمْسِكُونَ

← ءَاتَيْنَٰهُمْ 43:21:2 مِّن 43:21:4 →

How translators rendered it

Translation · 5 editions

These translations render verse 43:21 — 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 →

Or have We given them a book prior to this one, to which they adhere

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

Or have We given them any scripture before (this Qur'an) so that they are holding fast thereto

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

Have we ere this given them a Book? and do they possess it still

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

Have we given them a book before it to which they might hold

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

or We gave writing from his before so they in it those who hold fasts

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Translation · QuranBench (generated) — not a human translationCC BY-SA 4.0 How this was produced

Same form · 12 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كِتَٰبًا appears 12 times in the corpus.

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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