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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 54:2:6

سِحْرٌ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Surah
54 · The Moon
Verse
54:2
Word in verse
6
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:54:2:6

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
"Magic
Transliteration
siḥ'run
Root
س ح رs-hh-r
Lemma
سِحْر
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: NOMstate: indefinitegender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. سِحْرٌstem · N · س ح ر

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 54:2 — 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 →

Yet whenever they see a miracle, they turn away, and say, “Continuous magic.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And if they behold a portent they turn away and say: Prolonged illusion
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
But whenever they see a miracle they turn aside and say, This is well-devised magic
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
But if they see a sign they turn aside and say, 'Magic, continuous
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 12 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form سِحْرٌ appears 12 times 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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