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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 5:50:2

ٱلْجَٰهِلِيَّةِ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
ٱلْجَٰهِلِيَّةِ Quranic text
Simple
الْجَٰهِلِيَّةِ
Without tashkeel
ٱلجهلية
Normalised (searchable)
الجهليه

Position

Computed
Verse
5:50
Word in verse
2
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:5:50:2

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
l-jāhiliyati
Lemma
جاهِلِيَّة
Part of speech
Proper noun (PN)
Features
case: GENgender: F

Sub-word segments

  1. ٱلْprefix · DET
  2. جَٰهِلِيَّةِstem · PN · ج ه 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 5:50 — 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 →

Is it the laws of the time of ignorance that they desire? Who is better than God in judgment for people who are certain
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Is it a judgment of the time of (pagan) ignorance that they are seeking? Who is better than Allah for judgment to a people who have certainty (in their belief)
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Desire they, therefore, the judgments of the times of(pagan) ignorance? But what better judge can there be than God for those who believe firmly
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Is it the judgment of the Ignorance they crave? but who is better than God to judge for people who are sure
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 4 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form ٱلْجَٰهِلِيَّةِ appears 4 times in the corpus.

Root ج ه ل · 24 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ج ه ل occurs 24 times across 9 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ج ه ل

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