Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 43:56:2

سَلَفًا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): سَلَفًا Quranic text
Simple: سَلَفًا
Without tashkeel: سلفا
Normalised (searchable): سلفا

Position

Computed

Surah: 43 · Ornaments of gold
Verse: 43:56
Word in verse: 2
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:43:56:2

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: a precedent
Transliteration: salafan

Root: س ل فs-l-f
Lemma: سَلَف
Part of speech: Noun (N)
Features: case: ACCstate: indefinitegender: Fnumber: plural

Sub-word segments

سَلَفًاstem · N · س ل ف

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

Ornaments of gold 43:56Quranic text

فَجَعَلْنَٰهُمْ سَلَفًا وَمَثَلًا لِّلْـَٔاخِرِينَ

← فَجَعَلْنَٰهُمْ 43:56:1 وَمَثَلًا 43:56:3 →

How translators rendered it

Translation · 5 editions

These translations render verse 43:56 — 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 →

Thus We made them a precedent and an example for the others

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

And We made them a thing past, and an example for those after (them)

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

And we made them a precedent and instance of divine judgments to those who came after them

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

and we made them a precedent and an example to those after them

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

so We made a precedents and likeness for the lasts

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

Same form · 1 occurrence

Computed

This exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.

Root س ل ف · 8 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root س ل ف occurs 8 times across 4 distinct forms.

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