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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 5:31:17

مِثْلَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
5 · The Table
Verse
5:31
Word in verse
17
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:5:31:17

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
like
Transliteration
mith'la
Root
م ث لm-th-l
Lemma
مِثْل
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCgender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. مِثْلَstem · 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 5:31 — 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 →

Then God sent a raven digging the ground, to show him how to cover his brother's corpse. He said, “Woe to me! I was unable to be like this raven, and bury my brother's corpse.” So he became full of regrets
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Then Allah sent a raven scratching up the ground, to show him how to hide his brother's naked corpse. He said: Woe unto me! Am I not able to be as this raven and so hide my brother's naked corpse? And he became repentant
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And God sent a raven which scratched upon the ground, to shew him how he might hide his brother's wrong. He said: "O woe is me! am I too weak to become like this raven, and to hide away my brother's wrong?" And he became one of the repentant
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And God sent a crow to scratch in the earth and show him how he might hide his brother's shame, he said, ' Alas, for me! Am I too helpless to become like this crow and hide my brother's shame?' and in the morning he was of those who did repent
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 10 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form مِثْلَ appears 10 times in the corpus.

Root م ث ل · 169 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

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

See the full root page for م ث ل →

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