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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 43:57:5

مَثَلًا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
مَثَلًا Quranic text
Simple
مَثَلًا
Without tashkeel
مثلا
Normalised (searchable)
مثلا

Position

Computed
Verse
43:57
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:43:57:5

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
mathalan
Lemma
مَثَل
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCstate: indefinitegender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. مَثَلًاstem · N · م ث ل

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 43:57 — 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 when the son of Mary was cited as an example, your people opposed
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And when the son of Mary is quoted as an example, behold! the folk laugh out
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And when the Son of Mary was set forth as an instance of divine power, lo! thy people cried out for joy thereat
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And when the son of Mary was set forth as a parable, behold thy people turned away from him
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 17 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form مَثَلًا appears 17 times in the corpus.

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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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