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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 54:50:5

كَلَمْحٍۭ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
كَلَمْحٍۭ Quranic text
Simple
كَلَمْحٍ
Without tashkeel
كلمح
Normalised (searchable)
كلمح

Position

Computed
Surah
54 · The Moon
Verse
54:50
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:54:50:5

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
like the twinkling
Transliteration
kalamḥin
Root
ل م حl-m-hh
Lemma
لَمْح
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: GENstate: indefinitegender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. كَprefix · P
  2. لَمْحٍۭstem · N · ل م ح

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 54:50 — 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 →

And Our command is but once, like the twinkling of an eye
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And Our commandment is but one (commandment), as the twinkling of an eye
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Our command was but one word, swift as the twinkling of an eye
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
and our bidding is but one (word), like the twinkling of an eye
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 ل م ح · 2 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ل م ح occurs 2 times across 2 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ل م ح →

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