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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 5:31:8

كَيْفَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
5:31
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:5:31:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
how
Transliteration
kayfa
Lemma
كَيْف
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACC

Sub-word segments

  1. كَيْفَstem · N · ك ي ف

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 5 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
so he raised up Allah a crow he scratches the ground in the earth is showed how he conceals nakedness of his brother he said woe to me I was unable that I be like this the a crow I conceal nakedness my brother he becomed from the regretfuls

Generated from a table of word-by-word decisions, not written as prose. Arabic word order is preserved, so it reads stiffly and is not a substitute for a translation written by a person. Every verse is rendered, but the whole remains under review: words marked as judgement rest on weaker evidence than the rest and are flagged in place. No tafsir, hadith or existing translation was consulted.

Translation · QuranBench (generated) — not a human translationCC BY-SA 4.0How this was produced

Same form · 62 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كَيْفَ appears 62 times in the corpus.

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Root ك ي ف · 83 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ك ي ف occurs 83 times across 3 distinct forms.

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