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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 6:156:5

ٱلْكِتَٰبُ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
ٱلْكِتَٰبُ Quranic text
Simple
الْكِتَٰبُ
Without tashkeel
ٱلكتب
Normalised (searchable)
الكتب

Position

Computed
Verse
6:156
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:6:156:5

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
l-kitābu
Lemma
كِتاب
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: NOMgender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. ٱلْprefix · DET
  2. كِتَٰبُstem · N · ك ت 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 6:156 — 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 →

Lest you say, “The Scripture was revealed to two parties before us, and we were unaware of their teachings.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Lest ye should say: The Scripture was revealed only to two sects before us, and we in sooth were unaware of what they read
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Lest ye should say, "The Scriptures were indeed sent down only unto two peoples before us, but we were not able to go deep into their studies
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Lest ye say, 'The Book was only sent down to two sects before us; verily, we, for what they read, care naught
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 8 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form ٱلْكِتَٰبُ appears 8 times in the corpus.

Root ك ت ب · 319 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ك ت ب occurs 319 times across 61 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ك ت ب

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