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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 56:85:2

أَقْرَبُ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
أَقْرَبُ Quranic text
Simple
أَقْرَبُ
Without tashkeel
أقرب
Normalised (searchable)
اقرب

Position

Computed
Surah
56 · The Inevitable
Verse
56:85
Word in verse
2
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:56:85:2

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
(are) nearer
Transliteration
aqrabu
Root
ق ر بq-r-b
Lemma
أَقْرَب
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: NOMgender: Mnumber: singular

Sub-word segments

  1. أَقْرَبُstem · N · ق ر 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 56:85 — 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 →

We are nearer to it than you are, but you do not see
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And We are nearer unto him than ye are, but ye see not
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Though we are nearer to him than ye, although ye see us not
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
though we are nearer to him than you are, but ye cannot see
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 9 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form أَقْرَبُ appears 9 times in the corpus.

Root ق ر ب · 96 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ق ر ب occurs 96 times across 37 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ق ر ب →

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