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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 51:42:4

شَىْءٍ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
شَىْءٍ Quranic text
Simple
شَىْءٍ
Without tashkeel
شىء
Normalised (searchable)
شيء

Position

Computed
Verse
51:42
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:51:42:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
thing
Transliteration
shayin
Lemma
شَىْء
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: GENstate: indefinitegender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. شَىْءٍstem · N · ش ي أ

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 51:42 — 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 →

It spared nothing it came upon, but rendered it like decayed ruins
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
It spared naught that it reached, but made it (all) as dust
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
It touched not aught over which it came, but it turned it to dust
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
that left naught on which it came without making it ashes
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 176 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form شَىْءٍ appears 176 times in the corpus.

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Root ش ي أ · 519 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ش ي أ occurs 519 times across 29 distinct forms.

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