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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 5:21:6

كَتَبَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
5:21
Word in verse
6
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:5:21:6

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
kataba
Lemma
كَتَبَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. كَتَبَstem · V · ك ت ب

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 5:21 — 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 →

“O my people, enter the Holy Land which God has assigned for you, and do not turn back, lest you return as losers.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
O my people! Go into the holy land which Allah hath ordained for you. Turn not in flight, for surely ye turn back as losers
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Enter, O my people! the holy land which God hath destined for you. Turn not back, lest ye be overthrown to your ruin
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
O my people! enter the Holy Land which God has prescribed for you; and be ye not thrust back upon your hinder parts and retreat losers
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 8 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كَتَبَ appears 8 times in the corpus.

Root ك ت ب · 319 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ك ت ب occurs 319 times across 61 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ك ت ب

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