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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 51:52:11

سَاحِرٌ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
51 · The Winnowing Winds
Verse
51:52
Word in verse
11
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:51:52:11

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
"A magician
Transliteration
sāḥirun
Root
س ح رs-hh-r
Lemma
ساحِر
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: NOMstate: indefinitegender: Mderivation: ACT_PCPLverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. سَاحِرٌstem · N · س ح ر

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 51:52 — 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 →

Likewise, no messenger came to those before them, but they said, “A sorcerer or a madman.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Even so there came no messenger unto those before them but they said: A wizard or a madman
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Even thus came there no apostle to those who flourished before them, but they exclaimed, "Sorcerer, or Possessed
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Thus there came no apostle to those before them, but they said, 'A sorcerer, mad
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 1 occurrence

Computed

This exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.

Root س ح ر · 63 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root س ح ر occurs 63 times across 33 distinct forms.

See the full root page for س ح ر →

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Community

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