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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 6:123:8

لِيَمْكُرُوا۟

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
لِيَمْكُرُوا۟ Quranic text
Simple
لِيَمْكُرُوا
Without tashkeel
ليمكروا
Normalised (searchable)
ليمكروا

Position

Computed
Verse
6:123
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:6:123:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
liyamkurū
Lemma
مَكَرَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: IMPFmood: SUBJperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. لِprefix · PRP
  2. يَمْكُرُstem · V · م ك ر
  3. وا۟suffix · PRON

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 6:123 — 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 thus We set up in every city its leading wicked sinners, to conspire in it, but they conspire only against themselves, and they do not realize it
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And thus have We made in every city great ones of its wicked ones, that they should plot therein. They do but plot against themselves, though they perceive not
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Even so have we placed in every city, ringleaders of its wicked ones, to scheme therein: but only against themselves shall they scheme! and they know it not
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And thus have we placed in every town the great sinners thereof, that they may use craft therein; but they use not craft except against themselves, although they do not understand
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 ك ر · 43 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root م ك ر occurs 43 times across 25 distinct forms.

See the full root page for م ك ر

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