Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 7:166:2

عَتَوْا۟

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): عَتَوْا۟ Quranic text
Simple: عَتَوْا
Without tashkeel: عتوا
Normalised (searchable): عتوا

Position

Computed

Surah: 7 · The Heights
Verse: 7:166
Word in verse: 2
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:7:166:2

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: they exceeded all bounds
Transliteration: ʿataw

Root: ع ت وaa-t-w
Lemma: عَتَ
Part of speech: Verb (V)
Features: tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

عَتَstem · V · ع ت و
وْا۟suffix · 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

The Heights 7:166Quranic text

فَلَمَّا عَتَوْا۟عَن مَّا نُهُوا۟عَنْهُ قُلْنَا لَهُمْ كُونُوا۟قِرَدَةً خَٰسِـِٔينَ

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How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 7:166 — 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 →

Then, when they rebelled against the commands to refrain, We said to them, “Be despicable apes.”

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

So when they took pride in that which they had been forbidden, We said unto them: Be ye apes despised and loathed

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

But when they proudly persisted in that which was forbidden, we said to them, "Become scouted apes

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

but when they rebelled against what they were forbidden, we said to them, 'Become ye apes, despised and spurned

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 ع ت و · 10 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ع ت و occurs 10 times across 9 distinct forms.

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