كِتَٰبًا — Quran 6:7:4 · root ك ت ب

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): كِتَٰبًا Quranic text
Simple: كِتَٰبًا
Without tashkeel: كتبا
Normalised (searchable): كتبا

Position

Computed

Surah: 6 · The Cattle
Verse: 6:7
Word in verse: 4
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:6:7:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: a written Scripture
Transliteration: kitāban

Root: ك ت بk-t-b
Lemma: كِتاب
Part of speech: Noun (N)
Features: case: ACCstate: indefinitegender: M

Sub-word segments

كِتَٰبًاstem · N · ك ت ب

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

The Cattle 6:7Quranic text

وَلَوْ نَزَّلْنَا عَلَيْكَ كِتَٰبًا فِى قِرْطَاسٍ فَلَمَسُوهُ بِأَيْدِيهِمْ لَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوٓا۟إِنْ هَٰذَآ إِلَّا سِحْرٌ مُّبِينٌ

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How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 6:7 — 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 →

Had We sent down upon you a book on paper, and they had touched it with their hands, those who disbelieve would have said, “This is nothing but plain magic.”

Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Had we sent down unto thee (Muhammad) (actual) writing upon parchment, so that they could feel it with their hands, those who disbelieve would have said: This is naught else than mere magic

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

And had we sent down to thee a Book written on parchment, and they had touched it with their hands, the infidels had surely said, "This is nought but plain sorcery

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

Had we sent down to thee a book on paper, and they had touched it with their hands, still those who misbelieve would have said, 'This is naught but obvious magic

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 12 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كِتَٰبًا appears 12 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.

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