يَسْتَمِعُونَ — Quran 52:38:4 · root س م ع

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): يَسْتَمِعُونَ Quranic text
Simple: يَسْتَمِعُونَ
Without tashkeel: يستمعون
Normalised (searchable): يستمعون

Position

Computed

Surah: 52 · The Mount
Verse: 52:38
Word in verse: 4
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:52:38:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: they listen
Transliteration: yastamiʿūna

Root: س م عs-m-aa
Lemma: اسْتَمَعَ
Part of speech: Verb (V)
Features: tense: IMPFmood: INDperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 8

Sub-word segments

يَسْتَمِعُstem · V · س م ع
ونَsuffix · PRON

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

The Mount 52:38Quranic text

أَمْ لَهُمْ سُلَّمٌ يَسْتَمِعُونَ فِيهِ فَلْيَأْتِ مُسْتَمِعُهُم بِسُلْطَٰنٍ مُّبِينٍ

← سُلَّمٌ 52:38:3 فِيهِ 52:38:5 →

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 52:38 — 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 →

Or do they have a stairway by means of which they listen? Then let their listener produce a clear proof

Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Or have they any stairway (unto heaven) by means of which they overhear (decrees). Then let their listener produce some warrant manifest

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

Have they a ladder for hearing the angels? Let any one who hath heard them bring a clear proof of it

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

Or have they a ladder whereon they can listen?- then let their listener bring obvious authority

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 6 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form يَسْتَمِعُونَ appears 6 times in the corpus.

Root س م ع · 185 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root س م ع occurs 185 times across 65 distinct forms.

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