The Prohibition 66:1Quranic text
يَٰٓأَيُّهَاٱلنَّبِىُّلِمَتُحَرِّمُمَآأَحَلَّٱللَّهُلَكَتَبْتَغِىمَرْضَاتَأَزْوَٰجِكَوَٱللَّهُغَفُورٌرَّحِيمٌ
Reference 66:1Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 66:1:9
تَبْتَغِى
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- تَبْتَغِى Quranic text
- Simple
- تَبْتَغِى
- Without tashkeel
- تبتغى
- Normalised (searchable)
- تبتغي
Position
Computed- Surah
- 66 · The Prohibition
- Verse
- 66:1
- Word in verse
- 9
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:66:1:9
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- seeking
- Transliteration
- tabtaghī
- Root
- ب غ يb-gh-y
- Lemma
- ابْتَغَى
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: IMPFmood: INDperson: 2gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 8
Sub-word segments
- تَبْتَغِىstem · V · ب غ ي
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In context
Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 66:1 — 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 →
O prophet! Why do you prohibit what God has permitted for you, seeking to please your wives? God is Forgiving and MercifulO Prophet! Why bannest thou that which Allah hath made lawful for thee, seeking to please thy wives? And Allah is Forgiving, MercifulWHY, O Prophet! dost thou hold that to be FORBIDDEN which God hath made lawful to thee, from a desire to please thy wives, since God is Lenient, MercifulO thou prophet! wherefore dost thou prohibit what God has made lawful to thee, craving to please thy wives? but God is forgiving, compassionateSame form · 1 occurrence
ComputedThis exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.
Root ب غ ي · 96 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ب غ ي occurs 96 times across 55 distinct forms.
- بَغْيًا2:90:10
- بَاغٍ2:173:16
- وَٱبْتَغُوا۟2:187:26
- تَبْتَغُوا۟2:198:5
- ٱبْتِغَآءَ2:207:6
- بَغْيًۢا2:213:31
- ٱبْتِغَآءَ2:265:5
- ٱبْتِغَآءَ2:272:17
- ٱبْتِغَآءَ3:7:23
- وَٱبْتِغَآءَ3:7:25
- بَغْيًۢا3:19:17
- يَبْغُونَ3:83:4
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