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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 73:17:1

فَكَيْفَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
73:17
Word in verse
1
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:73:17:1

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
fakayfa
Lemma
كَيْف
Part of speech
Interrogative (INTG)
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. فَprefix · REM
  2. كَيْفَstem · INTG · ك ي ف

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 73:17 — 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 →

So how will you, if you persist in unbelief, save yourself from a Day which will turn the children gray-haired
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Then how, if ye disbelieve, will ye protect yourselves upon the day which will turn children grey
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And how, if ye believe not, will you screen yourselves from the day that shall turn children greyheaded
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Then how will ye shield yourselves if ye misbelieve from the day which shall make children grey-headed
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 16 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form فَكَيْفَ appears 16 times in the corpus.

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Root ك ي ف · 83 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ك ي ف occurs 83 times across 3 distinct forms.

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