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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 46:12:8

كِتَٰبٌ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
46 · The Dunes
Verse
46:12
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:46:12:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
(is) a Book
Transliteration
kitābun
Root
ك ت بk-t-b
Lemma
كِتاب
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: NOMstate: indefinitegender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. كِتَٰبٌstem · 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

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 46:12 — 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 before it was the Book of Moses, a model and a mercy. And this is a confirming Book, in the Arabic language, to warn those who do wrong—and good news for the doers of good
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
When before it there was the Scripture of Moses, an example and a mercy; and this is a confirming Scripture in the Arabic language, that it may warn those who do wrong and bring good tidings for the righteous
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
But before the Koran was the Book of Moses, a rule and a mercy; and this Book confirmeth it (the Pentateuch) - in the Arabic tongue - that those who are guilty of that wrong may be warned, and as glad tidings to the doers of good
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
But before it was the Book of Moses, a model and a mercy; and this is a book confirming it in Arabic language, to warn those who do wrong and as glad tidings to those who do well
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 16 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كِتَٰبٌ appears 16 times in the corpus.

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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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