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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 52:44:8

سَحَابٌ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
52 · The Mount
Verse
52:44
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:52:44:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
"Clouds
Transliteration
saḥābun
Root
س ح بs-hh-b
Lemma
سَحاب
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: NOMstate: indefinitegender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. سَحَابٌstem · N · س ح ب

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 52:44 — 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 →

Even if they were to see lumps of the sky falling down, they would say, “A mass of clouds.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And if they were to see a fragment of the heaven falling, they would say: A heap of clouds
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And should they see a fragment of the heaven falling down, they would say, "It is only a dense cloud
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
But if they should see a fragment of the sky falling down, they would say, 'Clouds in masses
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 2 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form سَحَابٌ appears 2 times in the corpus.

Root س ح ب · 11 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root س ح ب occurs 11 times across 6 distinct forms.

See the full root page for س ح ب →

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