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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
Verse
43:56
Word in verse
2
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:43:56:2

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
salafan
Lemma
سَلَف
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCstate: indefinitegender: Fnumber: plural

Sub-word segments

  1. سَلَفًاstem · N · س ل ف

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 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

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.

See the full root page for س ل ف

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