Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 72:8:2

لَمَسْنَا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): لَمَسْنَا Quranic text
Simple: لَمَسْنَا
Without tashkeel: لمسنا
Normalised (searchable): لمسنا

Position

Computed

Surah: 72 · The Jinn
Verse: 72:8
Word in verse: 2
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:72:8:2

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: sought to touch
Transliteration: lamasnā

Root: ل م سl-m-s
Lemma: لَمَسُ
Part of speech: Verb (V)
Features: tense: PERFperson: 1number: pluralverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

لَمَسْstem · V · ل م س
نَاsuffix · PRON

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

The Jinn 72:8Quranic text

وَأَنَّا لَمَسْنَا ٱلسَّمَآءَ فَوَجَدْنَٰهَا مُلِئَتْ حَرَسًا شَدِيدًا وَشُهُبًا

← وَأَنَّا 72:8:1 ٱلسَّمَآءَ 72:8:3 →

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 72:8 — 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 →

We probed the heaven, and found it filled with stern guards and projectiles

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

And (the Jinn who had listened to the Qur'an said): We had sought the heaven but had found it filled with strong warders and meteors

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

And the Heavens did we essay, but found them filled with a mighty garrison, and with flaming darts

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

But we touched the heavens and found them filled with a mighty guard and shooting-stars

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 ل م س · 5 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ل م س occurs 5 times across 4 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ل م س →

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