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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 72:8:3

ٱلسَّمَآءَ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
ٱلسَّمَآءَ Quranic text
Simple
السَّمَآءَ
Without tashkeel
ٱلسماء
Normalised (searchable)
السماء

Position

Computed
Verse
72:8
Word in verse
3
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:72:8:3

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
l-samāa
Lemma
سَماء
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCgender: F

Sub-word segments

  1. ٱلprefix · DET
  2. سَّمَآءَstem · N · س م و

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 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 · 13 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form ٱلسَّمَآءَ appears 13 times in the corpus.

Root س م و · 493 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root س م و occurs 493 times across 39 distinct forms.

See the full root page for س م و

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