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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 72:9:12

شِهَابًا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
شِهَابًا Quranic text
Simple
شِهَابًا
Without tashkeel
شهابا
Normalised (searchable)
شهابا

Position

Computed
Surah
72 · The Jinn
Verse
72:9
Word in verse
12
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:72:9:12

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
a flaming fire
Transliteration
shihāban
Root
ش ه بsh-h-b
Lemma
شِهاب
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCstate: indefinitegender: M

Sub-word segments

  1. شِهَابًاstem · N · ش ه ب

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 72:9 — 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 used to take up positions to listen in; but whoever listens now finds a projectile in wait for him
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And we used to sit on places (high) therein to listen. But he who listeneth now findeth a flame in wait for him
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And we sat on some of the seats to listen, but whoever listeneth findeth an ambush ready for him of flaming darts
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
and we did sit in certain seats thereof to listen; but whoso of us listens now finds a shooting-star for him on guard
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 ش ه ب · 5 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ش ه ب occurs 5 times across 4 distinct forms.

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