Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 72:9:8

يَسْتَمِعِ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): يَسْتَمِعِ Quranic text
Simple: يَسْتَمِعِ
Without tashkeel: يستمع
Normalised (searchable): يستمع

Position

Computed

Surah: 72 · The Jinn
Verse: 72:9
Word in verse: 8
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:72:9:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: listens
Transliteration: yastamiʿi

Root: س م عs-m-aa
Lemma: اسْتَمَعَ
Part of speech: Verb (V)
Features: tense: IMPFmood: JUSperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 8

Sub-word segments

يَسْتَمِعِstem · V · س م ع

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 Jinn 72:9Quranic text

وَأَنَّا كُنَّا نَقْعُدُ مِنْهَا مَقَٰعِدَ لِلسَّمْعِ فَمَن يَسْتَمِعِ ٱلْـَٔانَ يَجِدْ لَهُۥ شِهَابًا رَّصَدًا

← فَمَن 72:9:7 ٱلْـَٔانَ 72:9:9 →

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 س م ع · 185 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root س م ع occurs 185 times across 65 distinct forms.

See the full root page for س م ع →

Cited by 0 investigations

Community

No published investigation cites this word yet. When one does, it appears here — the evidence links back to the argument.