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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 53:9:2

قَابَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
53 · The Star
Verse
53:9
Word in verse
2
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:53:9:2

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
(at) a distance
Transliteration
qāba
Root
ق و بq-w-b
Lemma
قاب
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCgender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. قَابَstem · N · ق و 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 53:9 — 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 →

He was within two bows’ length, or closer
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Till he was (distant) two bows' length or even nearer
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And was at the distance of two bows, or even closer
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
until he was two bows length off or nigher still
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 ق و ب · 1 occurrence

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ق و ب occurs 1 time across 1 distinct form.

See the full root page for ق و ب →

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