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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 56:23:1

كَأَمْثَٰلِ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
كَأَمْثَٰلِ Quranic text
Simple
كَأَمْثَٰلِ
Without tashkeel
كأمثل
Normalised (searchable)
كامثل

Position

Computed
Verse
56:23
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:56:23:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
Like
Transliteration
ka-amthāli
Lemma
مَثَل
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: GENgender: Mnumber: plural

Sub-word segments

  1. كَprefix · P
  2. أَمْثَٰلِstem · N · م ث ل

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 56:23 — 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 →

The likenesses of treasured pearls
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Like unto hidden pearls
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
like pearls hidden in their shells
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
like hidden pearls
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 م ث ل · 169 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root م ث ل occurs 169 times across 65 distinct forms.

See the full root page for م ث ل

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