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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 54:24:2

أَبَشَرًا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
أَبَشَرًا Quranic text
Simple
أَبَشَرًا
Without tashkeel
أبشرا
Normalised (searchable)
ابشرا

Position

Computed
Surah
54 · The Moon
Verse
54:24
Word in verse
2
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:54:24:2

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
"Is (it) a human being
Transliteration
abasharan
Root
ب ش رb-sh-r
Lemma
بَشَر
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCstate: indefinitegender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. أَprefix · INTG
  2. بَشَرًاstem · N · ب ش 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 54:24 — 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 →

They said, “Are we to follow one of us, a human being? We would then go astray, and end up in Hell
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
For they said; Is it a mortal man, alone among us, that we are to follow? Then indeed we should fall into error and madness
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And they said, "Shall we follow a single man from among ourselves? Then verily should we be in error and in folly
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
and said, 'A mortal, one of us, alone, shall we follow him? then indeed were we in error and excitement
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 ب ش ر · 123 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ب ش ر occurs 123 times across 56 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ب ش ر →

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