Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 43:56:3

وَمَثَلًا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): وَمَثَلًا Quranic text
Simple: وَمَثَلًا
Without tashkeel: ومثلا
Normalised (searchable): ومثلا

Position

Computed

Surah: 43 · Ornaments of gold
Verse: 43:56
Word in verse: 3
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:43:56:3

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: and an example
Transliteration: wamathalan

Root: م ث لm-th-l
Lemma: مَثَل
Part of speech: Noun (N)
Features: case: ACCstate: indefinitegender: M

Sub-word segments

وَprefix · CONJ
مَثَلًاstem · N · م ث ل

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

Ornaments of gold 43:56Quranic text

فَجَعَلْنَٰهُمْ سَلَفًا وَمَثَلًا لِّلْـَٔاخِرِينَ

← سَلَفًا 43:56:2 لِّلْـَٔاخِرِينَ 43:56:4 →

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 · 2 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَمَثَلًا appears 2 times in the corpus.

وَمَثَلًا24:34:6

Root م ث ل · 169 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root م ث ل occurs 169 times across 65 distinct forms.

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