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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 5:58:8

ذَٰلِكَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
5:58
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:5:58:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
That
Transliteration
dhālika
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
ذا
Part of speech
Demonstrative (DEM)
Features
gender: Mnumber: singular

Sub-word segments

  1. ذَٰstem · DEM
  2. لِsuffix · DIST
  3. كَsuffix · ADDR

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 5:58 — 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 →

When you call to the prayer, they take it as a joke and a trifle. That is because they are people who do not reason
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And when ye call to prayer they take it for a jest and sport. That is because they are a folk who understand not
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Nor those who when ye call to prayer, make it an object of raillery and derision. This they do because they are a people who understand not
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Nor those who, when ye call to prayer, take it for a jest and a sport; that is because they are a people who do not understand
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 279 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form ذَٰلِكَ appears 279 times in the corpus.

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